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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in few

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

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A lot happens by accident in poetry. – Howard Nemerov

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. – Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

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Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. – Helen Dunmore

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