"Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves."

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"Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves."

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Poetry, Want

"In the grueling light that passed for day..."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."

Edmund C. Stedman, American Poet

Poetry, Art, Excellence

"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."

Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

Poetry, Despair, Writing

"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

"In the grueling light that passed for day..."

"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."

"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."

"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."

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"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."

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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."