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

Albert Einstein

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

Adam Braun

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Plutarch

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Alice Walker

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Read something of interest every day — something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Jane Yolen

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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Lord Byron

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When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Steve Martin

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

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I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That', and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth', by Vera Brittain.

George Packer

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Frost

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