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Some of my favourite quotes defining poetry - What is/are yours?
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth".
Samuel Johnson
"prose - words in their best order; poetry - the best words in their best order."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
Edgar Allan Poe
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 th...
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