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“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.”

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Author:Christopher Fry

“For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.”

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Book:Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

Source: Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

“At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.”

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Author:Robert Penn Warren

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.”

“In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.”

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Book:Intimate Journals

Source: Intimate Journals

“It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.”

“The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.”

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Author:Hafez

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

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Author:Randall Jarrell

“Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.”

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Author:John Masefield

“Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.”

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Author:Dave Beard

“Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.”

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Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.”

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.”

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Book:John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”

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Book:The Lyric: An Essay

Source: The Lyric: An Essay

“It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.”

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Book:Of Poetry and Poets

Source: Of Poetry and Poets

“Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.”

“Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.”

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Author:Plato

“Each man has his own batch of poems.”

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

“The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”

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Author:Edith Sitwell

“In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.”

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Author:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.”

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Author:George Meredith

“A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.”

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Book:The complete Tribune primer

Source: The complete Tribune primer

“Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.”

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Author:Elton John

“Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved... how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth... echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal chords...”

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Author:Brandi L. Bates