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T. S. Eliot

"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."

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"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

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