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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."	Kahlil Gibran
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."	Robert Graves
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet."	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."	Michel Leiris
"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading."	Archibald MacLeish
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."	Abraham Maslow
"He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite."	Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows."	Edmund Burke
"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise."	Oscar Wilde
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."	Oscar Wilde
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."	John Keats
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."	Paul Dirac
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."	T.S. Eliot
"If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem."	Author Unknown
"The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then"	Author Unknown
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E.B. White	Edgar Watson Howe	Edmund Burke
Edward Bulwer-Lytton	Emily Dickinson	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Jean Anouilh	Jesse Louis Jackson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Kahlil Gibran	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Marianne Moore
Marion Garretty	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michel Leiris	Oscar Wilde	Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	Peter Brodie	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reginald Blyth	Robert Frost	Robert Heinlein
Robert Graves	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Francis Bacon
Thomas Carlyle	T.S. Eliot	T. S. Eliot
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