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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The wor

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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A poem can have an impact, but you cant expect an audience to understand all the nuances. – Douglas Dunn

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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. – James Broughton

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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