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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren 
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves
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