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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. – Lawrence Summers

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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon

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