"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

Poetry, Songs

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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

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"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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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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"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."

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"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world."

Richard Eberhart, American Poet

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