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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. - George Farquhar

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Poetry

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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Poetry

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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Poetry

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold

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Poetry

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