"Poetry is a mere drug, Sir."

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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

Poetry, People

"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

Poetry, Life, Language, Expression

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

George Murray, Canadian Poet

Poetry, Fiction, Writing

"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

Poetry, Perspective, Optimism, Art

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Poetry,

"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

Poetry, Imagination, Words, Emotion

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

Poetry, Spirit

"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

Poetry, Life, Production

"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Poetry, Soul, Beauty, Inspirational

"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

Allen Tate, American Poet

Poetry, Spring

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"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."

Ale

"There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty."

Crime

"Money is the sinews of love, as of war."

Money

"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it."

Men

"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."

Love

"Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."

Love

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

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"Necessity, the mother of invention."

"Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it."

"There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty."

"When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony."

"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."

"There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty."

"Money is the sinews of love, as of war."

"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it."

"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."

"Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."