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[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Dam
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets… – Sir William Jones, “On the Philosophy of the Asiaticks” (eleventh anniversary di

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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy

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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Sorry if these lines are irregular in length and jolty in meter. – J.F. Bowman, 1868 [a little altered —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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