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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. - Edmund Burke

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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Im sorry, man, but Ive got magic. Ive got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time – and this includes naps – Im an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. – Charlie Sheen

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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I can find some way to make poetry out of my lifes experiences. – Shelby Lynne

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Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

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