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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. -

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

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I think that people dont know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, I know how to hire someone. – Walter Mosley

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When you deal with a person whos experiencing dementia, you can see where theyre struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how theyre trying to remember. – Walter Mosley

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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – Walter Mosley

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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold

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For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. – Giorgos Seferis

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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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