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“A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.”

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Author:Isak Dinesen

“Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.”

Source: Later Love Letters of a Musician

“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.”

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Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.”

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Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.”

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Author:Robert Frost