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“Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.”

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Book:We: Introduction by Will Self

Source: We: Introduction by Will Self

“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.”

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Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”

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Author:F. R. Leavis

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

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Book:The Prose of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Prose of Oscar Wilde

“It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

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Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot