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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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In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. – Juan Goytisolo

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. – Joseph Roux

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. – Voltaire

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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. – Alfred de Vigny

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