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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
Aristotle

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Why should poetry have to make sense?”
Charlie Chaplin

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Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.”
Novalis - Fragments

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The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.”
Paul Valéry - Tel quel

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Poetry, it's one of the most pretty nicknames we give to life.”
Jacques Prévert

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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”
Leonardo da Vinci

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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Honore de Balzac

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The poet consecrates himself to and consumes himself in the task of defining and constructing a language within the language.”
Paul Valéry

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

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Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.”
Jean Cocteau

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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”
Jean Cocteau

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There are dreams that are pure poems.”
Carl Gustav Jung

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
Henry David Thoreau

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Virginia Woolf

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.”
Bertrand Russell

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
Paul Valéry

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
Voltaire

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
Gaston Bachelard

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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”
Charles Baudelaire

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

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”
Victor Hugo

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

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