Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden
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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. – Salvatore Quasimodo
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)
