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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗

— Voltaire

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. ↗

— Orson Welles

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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