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• In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

  Paul Valery

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• But maybe it’s up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it’s never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

  Paul Engle

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• Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

  Toi Derricotte

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• But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

  Thomas Lynch

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• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

  William Hazlitt

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• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  Horace

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• The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

  Stephane Mallarme

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• Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

  Horace

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• Poets wish to profit or to please.

  Horace

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• Every old poem is sacred.

  Horace

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