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Quote by Walt Whitman
To have great poets there must be great audiences too. - Walt Whit

To have great poets there must be great audiences too. – Walt Whitman

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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Perspective
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Walt Whitman
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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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best
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. – Mark Strand

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry

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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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. – Archie Shepp

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Poetry

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