Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poe

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we cant imagine ourselves living without. – A. R. Ammons

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The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. – Muriel Rukeyser

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[P]oetry, that pearl of intelligence and life, reflects on our brow some pale rays of the glory that has faded away from it. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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