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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is myste

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young

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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal fame. – Edward Young

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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. – Edward Young

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Superstition is the poetry of life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. – Richard Eyre

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The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealisms anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. – Graham Joyce

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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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