"If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution."

Poetry, Bible, Aspirations, Needs

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"If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution."

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."

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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"

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"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

John Keats, English Poet

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"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."

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"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."

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"A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have."

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"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs."

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