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“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.”

Art Poetry Passion Sides Virtue Duty Poetry Is

Author:William Cowper

“For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.”

Art Spiritual Poetry Sides Compelling

Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

“True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.”

Men Poetry Sides Religious Emotional Highest Spring Harmony Complexes Intuition Aspiration

Author:Epes Sargent

“The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.”

War Hard Poetry Fighting Winning Sides Loses Poet Passionate Defeated

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”

Poetry Song Sides Voice Tears Poet Madness Wings Breasts

Book:Poems and new poems

Source: Poems and new poems

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

World Poetry Names Sides Sleep Courage Poet Shapes Argument Poetry Is Fraud Going To Sleep Great Poetry Poetry By Poets Satanic Verses

Author:Salman Rushdie