"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."

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"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."

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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."

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"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."

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"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."

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"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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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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"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Each day before the end of eveshe sought her lover, nor would him leave,until the stars were dimmed, and daycame glimmering eastward silver-grey.Then trembling-veiled she would appear,and dance before him, half in fear;there flitting just before his feetshe gently chid with laughter sweet:'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me!For fain thy dancing I would see!"

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,-a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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