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~ 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 ~

Edmund Burke

~ Poetry is as exact a science as geometry ~

Gustave Flaubert

~ Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. ~

W. H. Auden

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

~ 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 ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Paul Valery

~ 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 ~

Thomas Fuller

~ Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions ~

Joseph Roux

~ 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 ~

James Russell Lowell

~ The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality ~

Muriel Rukeyser

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