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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace 
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
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