The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet. – Author Unknown
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding
There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. – Erica Jong
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and natures God, not from government. – Paul Ryan
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire
In Europe they call geeks smart people, and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesnt value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek. – James Marsters
