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When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
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Jul 3
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1937
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Creation
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Highest
Sorrow
Deepest
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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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire
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From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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