“A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.”
— Richard Eberhart
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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
— Havelock Ellis
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“We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.”
— Paul Muldoon
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“God is the perfect poet.”
— Robert Browning
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“What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing.”
— Fernand Leger
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“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
— William Hazlitt
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“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.”
— Gaston Bachelard
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“Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
— Beverley Nichols
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“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
— Denis Diderot
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“Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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