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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. - George Farquhar

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. – George Farquhar

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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. – J. G. Stedman

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My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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Poetry

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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