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DEAD POET’S SOCIETY ~ THE NEED OF POETRY

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We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Dead Poet’s Society

JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ ON POETRY

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

DYLAN THOMAS ~ ON POETRY

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“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

Dylan Thomas

JOHN KEATS ~ ON POETRY

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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

~John Keats

SOREN KIERKEGAARD ~ ON BEING A POET

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A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music… and then people crowd about the poet and say to him:  “Sing for us soon again;” that is as much as to say, “May new sufferings torment your soul.”

~Soren Kierkegaard

ANNA AKHMATOVA ~ RUSSIAN POET

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“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace”

Anna Akhmatova
1889-1966
Russian Poet

GEORGE SAND ~ ON BEING A POET

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

~George Sand, 1851

Painting is George Sand by Eugene Delacroix

EMILY DICKINSON ~ AMERICAN POET

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To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson: Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830, Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest American poets. Most of her work was published after her death in 1886.

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