Quote by Alexander Pope
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. - Alexander Pope

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. – Alexander Pope

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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Its like I understand images and some people understand poetry. – Samantha Morton

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. – Eugenio Montale

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