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The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him. ↗

— Plato The Ion

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In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium. ↗

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

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The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face. ↗

— Anne Sexton

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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