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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Communication
T. S. Eliot

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Only poetry inspires poetry.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our best history is still poetry.
History and Historians
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The true poem is the poet's mind.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Poetry and Poets
George Farquhar

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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Poetry and Poets
Eugene Field

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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Fitzgerald

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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Poetry and Poets
Gustave Flaubert

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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry and Poets
John Fowles

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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Men and Women
Benjamin Franklin

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost

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Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost

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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Poetry and Poets
Zona Gale

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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Flowers
Jean Giraudoux

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Arts and Artists
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Superstition is the poetry of life.
Superstition
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Graves

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Custom
Thomas Hardy

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare

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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Poetry and Poets
William Hazlitt

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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
Vocation
William Hazlitt

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Poets wish to profit or to please.
Poetry and Poets
Horace

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun