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Poetry QuotesShowing page 4 of 4 "Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth." "A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind." "Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." "If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone." "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." "A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman." "To have great poets, there must be great audiences." "Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life." "A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
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