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“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”

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Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.”

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Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?”

Hard Beauty And Love Poetry Is Beauty And Love

Author:Robin Wright

“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”

Men Soul Beauty Type Poetry Is Wiser Revealing

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .”

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Author:Marsilio Ficino