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~ All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears ~

~ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility ~

~ Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking ~

~ Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ~

~ Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. ~

~ Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~

~ Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting ~

~ Poetry is as exact a science as geometry ~

~ Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. ~

~ Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre ~

~ Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house ~

~ In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well ~

~ Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat ~

~ Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions ~

~ Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls ~

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