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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of v

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. – John Drinkwater

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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. – John Drinkwater

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The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. – Bobby McFerrin

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