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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. – Laura Riding

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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding

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Poetry
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Laura Riding
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. – James Martineau

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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

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

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I can find some way to make poetry out of my lifes experiences. – Shelby Lynne

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