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Quote by Dennis Potter
Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop

Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter

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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? – Dennis Potter

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amazing
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Religion, you cant a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they dont believe. – Dennis Potter

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Religion
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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter

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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. – Robert Creeley

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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. – William Blissett

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Poets touch forcibly and truly that invisible lyre which echoes in unison in all human souls. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), paraphrase

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