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Quote by John Denham
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one la

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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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. – John Denham

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – John Drinkwater

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I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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