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Niels Bohr: "We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections." # Poetry and Poets

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Henry David Thoreau: "Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech." # Poetry and Poets # Speech # Friends and Friendship

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James Fenton: "Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most...are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so." # Poetry and Poets # Language # Books - Reading

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Elizabeth Drew: "We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others." # Poetry and Poets # Love # Death and Dying

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Socrates : "I realized that it was not by wisdom that poets write their poetry, but by a kind of nature or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets; for these also say many beautiful things, but do not know anything of what they say." # Poetry and Poets # Wisdom # Nature

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Hesiod : "Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet." # Jealousy # Poetry and Poets # Writers and Writing

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: "A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote." # Poetry and Poets # Autobiography # Biography

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Johann Wolfgang von Gogh Goethe: "Who wants to understand the poem Must go to the land of poetry; Who wishes to understand the poet Must go to the poet's land." # Poetry and Poets # Love # Understanding

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: "Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle." # Poetry and Poets # Friends and Friendship # Truth

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Thomas B Macaulay: "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind." # Poetry and Poets # Enjoyment # Mind

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