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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. - Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde

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I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde

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Superstition is the poetry of life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. – Amy Clampitt

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The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

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