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Andrei Codrescu: "The language of the game is interesting. You can think of the pauses as caesuras, breaks between the lines. As a poem the game is composed of a number of short lines representing the pitches. The number of lines per batter form a stanza. Then there is a space. Sometimes the stanzas become breathless, rushing full paragraphs that build rapidly on each other until the poem-inning explodes. The poem lives for this sudden blossoming out of prosodic regularity. Should someone make a computer analysis of baseball prosody, I believe that they would come up with something close to the prosody of some great American lyrical epic, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, let’s say, or Doc Williams’s Patterson.... The game is definitely an epic ... formed of many lyrical moments dependent on silences for their effectiveness. An unfolding story punctuated by brief emotional swellings." # Poetry and Poets # Life and Living # Computers

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Charles Simic: "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." # Poetry and Poets

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Charles Baudelaire: "There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." # Poetry and Poets # Love # Army and Navy

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock." # Poetry and Poets # Music # Rock and Roll

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song." # Poetry and Poets # Life and Living # Friends and Friendship

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Robert Graves: "Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them." # Poetry and Poets # Grammar # Language

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Beverly Nichols: "Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose." # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Age and Aging

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Yasunari Kawabata: ""Among those who give thoughts to things, is there one who does not think of suicide?" With me was the knowledge that that fellow Ikkyu twice contemplated suicide. I have "that fellow", because the priest Ikkyu is known even to children as a most amusing person, and because anecdotes about his limitlessly eccentric behavior have come down to us in ample numbers. It is said of him that children climbed his knee to stroke his beard, that wild birds took feed from his hand. It would seem from all this that he was the ultimate in mindlessness, that he was an approachable and gentle sort of priest. As a matter of fact he was the most severe and profound of Zen priests. Said to have been the son of an emperor, he entered a temple at the age of six, and early showed his genius as a poetic prodigy. At the same time he was troubled with the deepest of doubts about religion and life. "If there is a god, let him help me. If there is none, let me throw myself to the bottom of the lake and become food for fishes." Leaving behind these words he sought to throw himself into a lake, but was held back. ... He gave his collected poetry the title "Collection of the Roiling Clouds", and himself used the expression "Roiling Clouds" as a pen name. In his collection and its successor are poems quite without parallel in the Chinese and especially the Zen poetry of the Japanese middle ages, erotic poems and poems about the secrets of the bedchamber that leave one in utter astonishment. He sought, by eating fish and drinking spirits and having commerce with women, to go beyond the rules and proscriptions of the Zen of his day, and to seek liberation from them, and thus, turning against established religious forms, he sought in the pursuit of Zen the revival and affirmation of the essence of life, of human existence, in a day civil war and moral collapse." # Poetry and Poets # Love # Writers and Writing

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Joseph Brodsky: "If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion." # Poetry and Poets # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Woody Allen: "As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree"—probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." # Poetry and Poets

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