Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship wi

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. – Wislawa Szymborska

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