Carolina QuotesPoetry is a vocal art for me, not neccessarilyperformative, it might be reading to one self or recalling some lines by memory.The speaker bringing their own experience to it,changing it with their own sensibility.
Robert Pinsky Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
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There are no rules. However, principles may be discerned in actual practice; for example, in the way people actually speak, or in the lines the poets have written.
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