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“Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.”

James Martineau · Poetry

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

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John Keats

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

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Peter Davison

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

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