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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin 
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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Lionel Trilling
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
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