"Go to the poets, they will speak to thee. More perfectly of purer creatures."

Poetry, Guidance, Inspirational, Wisdom

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"Go to the poets, they will speak to thee. More perfectly of purer creatures."

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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

Poetry, Soul, Will

"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

Nathalie Sarraute, Russian Lawyer

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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."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Poetry, Life, Language, Expression

"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

Poetry, Fiction, Writing

"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."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Poetry, Perspective, Optimism, Art

"Always learn poems by heart, ' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay."

Janet Fitch, American Author

Poetry, Learning, Memory, Emotion

"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"

John C. Ransom, American Poet

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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

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"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

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"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

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"I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more."

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"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

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"The eye--it cannot choose but see;We cannot bid the ear be still;Our bodies feel, where'er they be,Against or with our will."

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"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."

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"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."

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"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

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