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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, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. – William Shenstone

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

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