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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. - Gilbert K. Ch

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock n roll was asleep. – Patti Smith

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Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. – Mary Oliver

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