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- Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
- Frederick William Robertson
- The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
- L. Schefer
- When power leads man towards 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 his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Amherst College, Honoring Robert Frost
- I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
- Zona Gale
- Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
- William E. Channing
- No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
- Robert Cecil Day Lewis
- Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
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