Quote by Muhammad Iqbal
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir o

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. – Muhammad Iqbal

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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Men
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. – Muhammad Iqbal

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My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyones existence in this world. – Wislawa Szymborska

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