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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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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. – Edward Young

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Wisdom
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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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Trust
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. – W. H. Auden

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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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Who can tell the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats

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