“My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.”
— Herschel Walker
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“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
— T. S. Eliot
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“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.”
— Anthony Hope
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“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”
— Georges Braque
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“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”
— T. S. Eliot
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“A lot happens by accident in poetry.”
— Howard Nemerov
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“The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.”
— Richard Rosen
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“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.”
— Joseph Roux
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“Superstition is the poetry of life.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.”
— John Masefield
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“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
— John Ruskin
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