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"The eye is the notebook of the poet." James Lowell
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Francis Bacon

"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body." Francis Bacon
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Alphonse De Lamartine

"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive." Alphonse De Lamartine
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Edgar Allan Poe

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion." Edgar Allan Poe
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William Hazlitt

"The essence of poetry is will and passion." William Hazlitt
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"But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents." William Williams
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"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind." Thomas Macaulay
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Lord Byron

"Poetry should only occupy the idle." Lord Byron
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"Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life." William Henry Channing
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"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." Franz Kafka
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Only poetry inspires poetry." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Voltaire

"It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music." Voltaire
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Rainer Maria Rilke

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." Rainer Maria Rilke
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H. Auden

"Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying." H. Auden
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Joseph Joubert

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you." Joseph Joubert
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"A good poet's made as well as born." Ben Jonson
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Bob Dylan

"She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you." Bob Dylan
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E. B. White

"A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it." E. B. White
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Elbert Hubbard

"A person born with an instinct for poverty." Elbert Hubbard
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Henry David Thoreau

"Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it." Henry David Thoreau
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