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— Paul Valery"A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms."
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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
— Wallace Stevens
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Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.
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