“I am not joking. I'm speaking
of spirit. Not dogma but spirit. The Way.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet
Conversation in Moscow
“Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.”
"Paradigms Lost," interview with Gloria Brame http://www.danagioia.net/about/brame.htm, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum (Spring 1995) <br class="br">Interviews
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From 'Tracing Aristotle's Rhetoric' in Defense of Poesy 1581.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
“Go put your creed into your deed,
Nor speak with double tongue.”
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Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
