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A poem is more important than a poet.

A poem More important A poet
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Who said poetry should only be a source of solace?

Who said Poetry A source Solace
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True poetry emanates from transformation.

True poetry Emanates Transformation
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Age poet Social reformers Stimulate Own time
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world

Heart Always breaking Through Broken window
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Want People Bow Gifted
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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Who Say Perfect Poet
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Poems Heroes Race Latter
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Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

Reason Produce Poetry Disorder
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Saints have No moderation Do poets Just exuberance
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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

Poetry My life Postmark My hands
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written Poetry Reading Destroyed
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Stronger Than alcohol Vaster Poetry
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In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.

Forefront Change Poetry Possibility
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Poetry Way Help Name
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Poetry Dream Vision Lives
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

A tramp Gentleman Poet A dreamer
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Poet Silence Response Flattering one
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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Not everyone Who drinks A poet
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Man Great Poet Philosopher
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Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

Prose Words Best Order
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that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

Willing Disbelief Moment Faith
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life

Making up Rhymes Never thought That poetry
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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

I think Fool ourselves Really negate Great deal
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All a poet can do today is warn.

All.Poet Today Warn
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's

Boy Realized Life Poet's
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Art Poetry Passions Virtue
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All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Great Poets Men Knowledge
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry Worth Life
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There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

Nation's Politics Poetry Writers
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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Poetry Simple Sensuous Impassioned
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Music Departs Dance Poetry
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry Rhyming Dictionary Seen
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Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Love Poet View Silent
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Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Poetry Thoughts Inspires Power
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A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Art Music Poetic Dream
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Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry Life Distilled
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Poet Asks Admiration Believed
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poet Liar Speaks Truth
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Poet Invent Listens
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

True Poet Scent Roses
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Poetry Hope Achieve Life
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Worst Tragedy Poet Admired
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Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Poetry Game Loser
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Fiction and poetry are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Poetry Medicines Reality Imagination
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The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Quantity Pleasure Good Poetry
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All poetry is misrepresentation.

Poetry Misrepresentation
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel

Poetry Achieve Deliver People
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

View Poetry Life People
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I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Thought Writing Poetry Political
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