True poets are those who have received from God, together with the

True poets are those who have received from God, together with the gift of expression, the power of penetrating further than others into the things of the heart and the life. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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