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Quote by Joseph Joubert
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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