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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze
Always be a poet, even in prose
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting
Poetry is the art of substituting shadows, and of lending existence to nothing
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