"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."

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"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."

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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

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"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

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

George Murray, Canadian Poet

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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."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"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

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"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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"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."

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"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."

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"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

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"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."

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"There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power."

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"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."

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"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."

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"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."

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"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"

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