"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."

Poetry, Science, Geometry, Inventions

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"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."

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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

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"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

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"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

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"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."

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"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."

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