"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."

Poetry, People, Mind, Public

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"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."

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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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"I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . ."

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"But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."

Julie Kagawa, American Author

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"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."

John Drinkwater, English Poet

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"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton, American Writer

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"Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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