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| Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
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| Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. | | Robert Frost | |
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| Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. | | Aristotle | |
| Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance | | Horace | |
| Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history. | | Aristotle | |
| Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. | | Plato | |
| Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars | | Aristotle | |
| Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing | | Edmund Burke | |
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| Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. | | W. H. Auden | |
| Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air | | Carl Sandburg | |
| Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. | | Voltaire | |
| Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment | | Carl Sandburg | |
| Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions | | John Ruskin | |
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