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Plutarch

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

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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."

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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

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

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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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"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."

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"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"

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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

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"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."

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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."

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