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We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Dead Poet's Society

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ~Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. ~Robinson Jeffers

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

A poem should not mean
But be.
~Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica, 1926

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

Breathe-in experience,
breathe-out poetry.
~Muriel Rukeyser

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. ~Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto, 1961

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. ~Jean Cocteau

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~Edgar Allan Poe

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ~Rita Dove

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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." ~Mother Teresa