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Quote by Lucille Clifton
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and t

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and thats a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. – Lucille Clifton

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. – Plutarch

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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