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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
― Randall Jarell

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
― T.S. Eliot

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges