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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The

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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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. – Huston Smith

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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. – John Denham

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. – H. L. Mencken

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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because youve done a comedy performance but because youre talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. – Roger McGough

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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyones existence in this world. – Wislawa Szymborska

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