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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. – Robert Staughton Lynd

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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for. – Jean Cocteau

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

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

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I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didnt have to have 20 verses to get your point across. – Justin Townes Earle

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