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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch 
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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
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
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