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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 drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. – Christopher Fry

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Ive written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. – J. Michael Straczynski

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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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