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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Well, if this is poetry, Im certainly never going to write any myself. – James Schuyler

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Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. – Thomas Hardy

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