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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own ess

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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