Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes th

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Societys dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies. – Tomas Transtromer

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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