Poetry Today

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“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.”
—Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)