"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century."

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

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

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