The crown of literature is poetry. - W. Somerset Maugham

The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Then, in what beauteous dress will Poetry oft clothe or decorate what in Prose is but too frequently flat and commonplace. – Frederick Hinde, Poetry, a lecture delivered in London on the evening of April 8

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

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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