#poet

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. ↗

— Joshua Logan

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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The eye is the notebook of the poet. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences. ↗