#poe

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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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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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ↗

— George Santayana

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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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