#poe

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

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I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. ↗

— William Shenstone

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ↗

— William Shenstone

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