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Poets touch forcibly and truly that invisible lyre which echoes in

Poets touch forcibly and truly that invisible lyre which echoes in unison in all human souls. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), paraphrase

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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. – Allen Tate

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. – William Butler Yeats

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[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes,” Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939

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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. Im always painting and drawing as well, and its an ongoing creative assignment. – P. J. Harvey

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