#poetry

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ↗

— John Dryden

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It's not easy to define poetry. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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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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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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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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