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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. poetry is nothing but healthy speech." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." »Simonides
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"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people." »Adrian Mitchell
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"Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people." »Adrian Mitchell
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language." »Johnson
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"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say." »Jean Cocteau
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"There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either." »Robert Graves
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"poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"poetry is what gets lost in translation." »Robert Frost
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"Wine is bottled poetry." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry." »R.Z. Sheppard, book critic
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"poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance." »M. C. Richards
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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." »Oscar Wilde
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"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." »T. S. Eliot
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"poetry is to hold judgment on your soul." »Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright
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"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry." »Charles Baudelaire
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"Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry." »Charles Baudelaire
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"poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." »Robert Frost
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"poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement." »Christopher Fry
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"A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." »Mario M Cuomo
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"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly." »Frederick William Robertson
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"poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." »Plato
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"The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry." »L. Schefer
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"poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." »William Wordsworth
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