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For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
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Alice Walker

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Beauty unites all things, links together flower and star, with chains more certain than those of reason. The poet, the artist, thus finds the clue which guides them in their pilgrimage throughout the world.
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Henry James

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Edgar Allan Poe

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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Johann
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Johann Von Goethe

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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?
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Aristotle

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Aristotle

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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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Aristotle

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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
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Rumi

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Let yourself become living poetry.
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Rumi

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Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!
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Freddie Mercury

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“The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.” 
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Gilbert K Chesterton

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“A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who has not learned to write, the painter who has not learned to paint, and the impression that has not learned to express itself--all of which are compatible with an immensity of genius in the inexpressible soul.”
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George Santayana

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“When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as we might find all the lights of the sea in the water of a jewel? And what is a philosophic thought but such an epitome?”
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George Santayana

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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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Charlie Chaplin

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“Why should poetry have to make sense?
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Charlie Chaplin

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Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.
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Maya Angelou

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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
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Maya Angelou

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I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.
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Maya Angelou

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There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.
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Maya Angelou

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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
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Maya Angelou

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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
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Maya Angelou

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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
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Maya Angelou

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” 
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Oscar Wilde

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“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."
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Oscar Wilde

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“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.” 
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Oscar Wilde

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“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.” 
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Oscar Wilde

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” 
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Emily Dickinson

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"The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!"
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Mahmoud Darwish

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"A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest."
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Mahmoud Darwish

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"In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south"
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Mahmoud Darwish

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"May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!"
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Mahmoud Darwish

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"I know who opens the door to the jasmine tree as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests."
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Mahmoud Darwish

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"... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs."
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Mahmoud Darwish

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"And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction."

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"One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions."
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Mahmoud Darwish

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"The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands."
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Mahmoud Darwish

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“It was such a lovely day too, and the sky and sea were so blue. They sat eating and drinking, gazing out to sea, watching the waves break into spray over the rocks beyond the old wreck.”
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Enid Blyton

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"Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'"
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Samuel Johnson

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"One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid"
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Charles Bukowski

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"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it."
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Charles Baudelaire 

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"With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk."
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Freddie Mercury

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"In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!"
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Freddie Mercury

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"The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way."
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Charles Baudelaire 

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"I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed."
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Charles Baudelaire 

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