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• Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Philosophy, Science, Imagination

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XII, 1795-1822.

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• He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

  John Milton

  Hope, Writing, Frustration

  'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) introduction, p. 16

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• The union of a want and a sentiment.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Unions, Want

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• The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

  Hafez

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
  Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
  Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

  Callimachus

  Laughter, Writing, Wine

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• Take 7 emcees put em in a line
  And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme
  It'll take 7 more before I go for mine
  And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.

  Rakim

  Brother, Rap, Thinking

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• By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.

  David Truman

  Life, Mean, Self

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• A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

  Paul Verlaine

  Mean, Machines, Kind

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• I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

  Carol Ann Duffy

  His Love, Reading Books, Love Poems

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• A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

  John Keats

  Lakes, Water, Understanding

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• "I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

  Frank Drake

  Stars, Echoes, Perfect

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• Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

  Anne Stevenson

  Weight, Bears, Reading Books

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• A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

  Anne Stevenson

  Thinking, Feelings, Might

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• I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

  Howard Nemerov

  Fidgeting, Sometimes, Kindergarten

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• However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

  James Schuyler

  Poetic, Prose, Sentences

  James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

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• Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

  Mark Strand

  Poetic

  "In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

  Mark Strand

  Pain, Pleasure, Ends

  "In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Poetic, Grows

  1985 In the New York Times, 12 May.

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• The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Function

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• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Lightning, Six

  1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

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• Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
  [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Math, Names

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• It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

  Robert Hass

  Writing, Hell, States

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• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

  John Masefield

  Men, Community, Delight

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• Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

  John Masefield

  Common Sense, Mixtures, Uncommon

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