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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”— Novalis
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“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”— Dennis Gabor
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“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”— Charles Simic
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“However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.”— James Schuyler
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“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”— Jim Morrison
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“A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.”— Thomas Harrison
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“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”— Jim Morrison
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“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”— John Ruskin
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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.”— A. E. Housman
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”— Emily Dickinson
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“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”— Charles Baudelaire
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“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”— Emily Dickinson
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“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”— Allen Ginsberg
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“Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”— Walter Scott
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“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”— Emily Dickinson
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“As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.”— Jhene Aiko
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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.”— Lionel Trilling
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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”— Marianne Moore
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“Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.”— Julie Taymor
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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.”— Paul Engle
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“The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.”— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”— Virginia Woolf
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“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”— Horace Walpole
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“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge