Carolina QuotesPoetry is the most bodliy of arts, the medium of poetry is the column of breath rising from the diaphragm in the individual's chest to be shaped into meaning sounds inside the mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.
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- The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
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- 1995
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