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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Plato
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plutarch
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Richard Rosen
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
Salman Rushdie
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
George Sand
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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