"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."

Julie Kagawa, American Author

Poetry, Emotion, Truth, Observation

"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton, American Writer

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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

John Keats, English Poet

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"My heart ist melting, I love you, Drops of Gold."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

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"True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

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"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Love, Beauty, Emotion

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Poetry, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."

Danielle Steel, American Novelist

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"Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow."

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"Humor is also a way of saying something serious."

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"Believe me, Michael:Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.I know this from experience. When you reach your goal,Your imagined paradise of success and grandeur,You will find your past failures waiting there to greet you."

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"Business today consists in persuading crowds."

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"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance."

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"Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks."

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"It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves."

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