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"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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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."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do."
Art
"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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"Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original."
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"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."
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"Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem."
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"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."
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"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
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"Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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