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[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. – Sigmund Freud, quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. – Herbert Spencer

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. – Robert Staughton Lynd

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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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