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Why should poetry have to make sense? - Charlie Chaplin

Why should poetry have to make sense? – Charlie Chaplin

Other quotes by Charlie Chaplin

I dont believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. – Charlie Chaplin

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Public
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Charlie Chaplin
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. – Charlie Chaplin

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Beauty
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Charlie Chaplin
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The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

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Poetry

Poetry is the overflowing of the soul. – Henry T. Tuckerman, “Bryant,” Thoughts on the Poets, 1850

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Poetry
[P]oetry, that pearl of intelligence and life, reflects on our brow some pale rays of the glory that has faded away from it. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeares sonnets. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

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