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Quote by Paul Dirac
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be unders

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, its the exact opposite. – Paul Dirac

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I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. – Paul Dirac

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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. – Seamus Heaney

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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What is poetry which does not save nations or people? – Czeslaw Milosz

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon

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