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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement." - Christopher Fry
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion, and medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?' Answer. That you are here--that life exists, and identity;that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
-Tom Schulman
from "Dead Poets Society"
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato
"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know." - Joseph Roux "Poetry should be like fireworks, packed carefully and artfully, ready to explode with unpredictable effects."
-Lilian Moore
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gautier
Poetry is being, not doing.
- E.E. Cummings
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things
- T. S. Eliot
A poet can survive everything but a misprint - Oscar Wilde
My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
- Countee Cullen
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