#poet

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ↗

— Plato

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Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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