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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.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

by Voltaire Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

by Bhagavad Gita Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

by T. S. Eliot Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the read more

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".

by Robert Penn Warren Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production read more

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

by Lascelles Abercrombie Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

by Paul Engle Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may read more

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

by Robert Frost Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a read more

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

by Gaston Bachelard Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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