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Quote by Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poe

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend ones language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. – W. H. Auden

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