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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. – T. S. Eliot

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Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. – Muhammad Iqbal

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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. Im always painting and drawing as well, and its an ongoing creative assignment. – P. J. Harvey

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Always be a poet, even in prose. – Charles Baudelaire, “My Heart Laid Bare,” Intimate Journals, 1864

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