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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ↗

— George Orwell

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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ↗

— George Orwell

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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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