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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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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. – Edward Young

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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. – Edward Young

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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss. – Edward Young

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Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think its harder to write. Its harder to keep the respect of the reader too. – George Murray

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Poetry

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – John Drinkwater

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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didnt think so. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – Robert Fitzgerald

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