"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together."

Poetry, Imagination, Love, Blood

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"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together."

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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Poetry, Love, Memory, Writing

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

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poetry, Movement, Memory, Time

"Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught."

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"A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences."

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"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious."

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"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

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"The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep."

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"The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people."

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"A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things."

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"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."

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"We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities."

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