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

"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
Author:     Robert Frost Category:     Poetry and Poets

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

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
Author:     Allen Ginsberg Category:     Poetry and Poets

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

"The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner."
Author:     William Hazlitt Category:     Poetry and Poets

"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."
Author:     Horace Category:     Poetry and Poets

"Inside every man there is a poet who died young."
Author:     Stephan Kanfer Category:     Poetry and Poets

"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
Author:     John Keats Category:     Poetry and Poets

"When power leads man towards 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 existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
Author:     John F. Kennedy Category:     Poetry and Poets


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