The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Charles Darwin

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I read poetry to save time.

Marilyn Monroe

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Robert Frost

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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Robert Frost

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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Robert Frost

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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Robert Frost

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