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“Superstition is the poetry of life.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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“'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.”— André Gide
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“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”— Victor Hugo
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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”— William Butler Yeats
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”— Robert Frost
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“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”— Lord Byron
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“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”— Steven Wright
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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”— Plato
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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”— Aristotle
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”— T. S. Eliot
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“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”— William Blake
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“I love romantic poetry.”— Richard Dawkins
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“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”— Voltaire
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“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”— Plutarch
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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”— T. S. Eliot
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“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”— Anna Quindlen
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“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”— Virginia Woolf
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“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”— Tahar Ben Jelloun