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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Eugenio Montale

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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

David Antin

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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

F. L. Lucas

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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Nicholson Baker

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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Philip Levine

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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Knut Hamsun

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

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