कविता क्या है?
धर्मेन्द्र कुमार सिंह ‘सज्जन’
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धर्मेन्द्र कुमार सिंह ‘सज्जन’
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"कविता एक विधा है जिसका आकार चंद शब्दों से अनंत तक है" ये सूक्तिवाक्य है। ये वाक्य अपने आप में एक कविता है।
कविता
को परिभाषित करने की कोशिश तब की जाती है जब एक विशेष तरह की कविताओं को
केंद्र में लाना हो और दूसरी तरह की कविताओं को हासिए पर धकेलना हो।
रामचंद्र शुक्ल आलोचना करने बैठते हैं तो एक तरह की कविता कविता है दूसरी तरह की कूड़ा
डॉ नगेन्द्र आलोचना करने बैठते हैं तो यही हाल
नामवर
जी आलोचना करते हैं तो उसके बाद पूरी की पूरी छंदबद्ध कविता ही हासिए पर
चली जाती है और मुक्तिबोध और अज्ञेय केंद्र में आ जाते हैं।
आजकल
तो सारे कवि पार्ट टाइम आलोचक भी हैं।
जिस तरह वो लिखते हैं वो कविता, बाकी सब कूड़ा।
कोई थोड़ा उदार बनता है तो कहता है कविता छांदस भी हो सकती है और छंद मुक्त भी। उसी तरह कूड़ा छंदमुक्त भी हो सकता है और छांदस भी।
आजकल एक और शब्द खूब प्रचलन में है। बड़ा कवि और बड़ी कविता। कवि और
कविता न हुए / हुई वैज्ञानिक राशियाँ हो गईं फीता लगाया और नाप लिया।
परिभाषाएँ विज्ञान में अच्छी लगती हैं। कविता में नहीं।
देखिए कविता के संबंध में कुछ विद्वानों के विचार।
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Poet
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1
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A
poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a
lovesickness
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Robert
Frost
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2
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A
poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all
the nuances
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3
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A
poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent
of sense
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4
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A
poem is never finished, only abandoned
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5
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A
poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A
poem points to nothing but itself
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6
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A
poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and
frailties
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7
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A
poet can survive everything but a misprint
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8
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A
poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with
language
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9
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A
poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman
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10
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A
poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote
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11
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A
poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides,
start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep
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12
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A
true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent
his roses
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13
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All
bad poetry springs from genuine feeling
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14
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Always
be a poet, even in prose
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15
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Any
healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry
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16
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Breathe-in
experience, breathe-out poetry
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17
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Children
and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently
trying to untie
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18
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Each
memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content
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19
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Each
word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly
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20
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Even
when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw
it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure
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21
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Every
single soul is a poem
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22
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Everyone
thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel
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23
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Everything
one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise
as geometry
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24
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Genuine
poetry can communicate before it is understood
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25
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God
is the perfect poet
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26
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He
who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he
has never written a line in all his life
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27
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How
do poems grow? They grow out of your life
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28
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However,
if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it
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29
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I
like poems that are little games
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30
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I
sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem
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31
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I
still read Donne, particularly his love poems
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32
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I
was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything
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33
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If
Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have
let him alone
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34
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If
you cannot be a poet, be the poem
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35
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If
you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the
body of the poem
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36
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No
poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results
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37
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No
poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers
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38
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One
merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than
prose
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39
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One
will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in
exactly the same way
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40
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Pain
is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure
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41
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Painting
is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks
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42
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Poetry
heals the wounds inflicted by reason
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43
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Poetry
is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary
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44
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Poetry
is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted
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45
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Poetry
is all that is worth remembering in life
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46
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Poetry
is an echo, asking a shadow to dance
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47
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Poetry
is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind
them
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48
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Poetry
is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just
the ash
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49
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Poetry
is language at its most distilled and most powerful
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50
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Poetry
is nearer to vital truth than history
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51
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Poetry
is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the
expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course,
only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to
escape from these things
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52
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Poetry
is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas,
nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough
skin of words
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53
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Poetry
is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them
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54
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Poetry
is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads
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55
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Poetry
is the art of uniting pleasure with truth
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56
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Poetry
is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess
about what is seen during the moment
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57
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Poetry
is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and
personal which the reader recognizes as his own
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58
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Poetry
is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words
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59
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Poetry
is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits
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60
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Poetry
is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn
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61
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Poetry
is what gets lost in translation
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62
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Poetry
is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words
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63
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Poetry
should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts,
and appear almost a remembrance.
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64
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Poetry:
the best words in the best order
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65
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Poets
are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition
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66
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Poets
are the unacknowledged legislators of the world
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67
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Publishing
a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and
waiting for the echo
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68
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Sometimes
poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems
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69
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The
moment of change is the only poem
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70
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The
novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair
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71
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The
poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the
end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may
see-and what we see is life
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72
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The
poem is the point at which our strength gave out
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73
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The
poet is a liar who always speaks the truth
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74
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The
poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part
of the weather
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75
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The
poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese
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76
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There
is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing
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77
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There'll
always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a
poet of memory
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78
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There's
no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either
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79
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"Therefore"
is a word the poet must not know
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80
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To
have great poets, there must be great audiences
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81
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To
read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our
ears
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82
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To
see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one
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83
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Usually
a life turned into a poem is misrepresented
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84
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Wanted:
a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket
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85
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We
all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words
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86
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You
don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone
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87
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You
don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life
- that's my trouble
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88
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You
don't make a poem with ideas, but with words
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89
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You
will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you
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