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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. – Edward Young

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Death
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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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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. – Patrick White

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens

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When youre looking that far out, youre giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesnt need translation. Its like poetry, it touches you. – Story Musgrave

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