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Only poetry inspires poetry.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Books," Society and Solitude (1870).)
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
(Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Cromwell, preface (1827).)
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
(Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Cromwell, preface (1827).)
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
(Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985), U.S. scholar, translator. Writers at Work, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton (1988).)
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 365 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
(Diane Glancy (b. 1941), U.S. poet. As quoted in What Is Found There, ch. 12, by Adrienne Rich (1993).)
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. letter, Aug. 3, 1940, to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963).
Fitzgerald described Ode on a Grecian Urn as "unbearably beautiful with every syllable as inevitable as the notes in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" (same source).)
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. letter, Aug. 3, 1940, to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963).
Fitzgerald described Ode on a Grecian Urn as "unbearably beautiful with every syllable as inevitable as the notes in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" (same source).)
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