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 Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
  Sir Walter Scott

 That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous
  Galway Kinnell

 The cliche is dead poetry.
  Gerald Brenan

 The crown of literature is poetry.
  William Somerset Maugham

 The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity
  George Santayana

 The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy
  Walt Whitman

 The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
  Allen Ginsberg

 The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
  Robert Penn Warren

 The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
  Jean Cocteau

 The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing
  Walt Whitman

 The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather
  Lionel Trilling

 The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
  Leonardo da Vinci

 The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality
  Mark Twain

 The poetry of the earth is never dead.
  John Keats

 The true poem rests between the words.


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