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If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.

John Keats

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle or amaze us with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

(Poems are) imaginary gardens with real toads in them.

Marianne Moore

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

Alexander Pope

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Frederick W. Robertson

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I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Confucius

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

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You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

- Marilyn Monroe

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

- Maya Angelou

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