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“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”

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Author:Horace Walpole

“What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”

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Author:Alfred de Musset

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

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

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Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

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Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”