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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. – Muhammad Iqbal

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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Poetry
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. – Muhammad Iqbal

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I am grateful for – though I cant keep up with – the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. – A. R. Ammons

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that its timeless, that it reaches back. – Robert Morgan

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