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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. – John Keats

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. – Huston Smith

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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[P]oetry often brings consolation to the heart which prose has failed to touch… – Luigi, Sweet Songs for Mourning Mothers, 1884

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis

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