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Quote by James Schuyler
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there cant

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there cant be much to it. – James Schuyler

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. – A. R. Ammons

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of mans concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. – John F. Kennedy

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