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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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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant,—the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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