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8 Cards in this Set
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. |
-Plato |
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God is the perfect poet. |
Robert Browning |
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-To have great poets, there must great audiences too. |
-Walt Whitman |
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. |
-William Hazlitt |
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-Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. |
-Christopher Fry |
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. |
-TS Eliot |
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"The crown of literature is poetry. It is it's end and aim. It is the sublimity activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. |
-W Somerset Maugham |
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. |
-Robert Frost |
