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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written a

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon

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