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"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes." C.S. Lewis 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say." GK Chesterton 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." T.S. Eliot 4.888888888888889 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." T.S. Eliot 4.375 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." T.S. Eliot 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing." T.S. Eliot 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." Paul Dirac 4.923076923076923 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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