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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Poetry

 A poet can survive everything but a misprint. 
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
 Always be a poet, even in prose. 
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867)
 he sang his didn't he danced his did 
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
 I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. 
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. 
Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
 It's hard to say why writing verse
Should terminate in drink or worse. 
Anonymous
 lady will you come with me into
the extremely little house of
my mind. 
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
 My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light. 
Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
 Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. 
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
 Poetry is proof that rhyme doesn't pay. 
Anonymous
 Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. 
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
 Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. 
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
 She has eyes that men adore so
And a torso even more so. 
E.Y. Harburg (1896-1981)
 Some prose writers go from bad to verse. 
Anonymous
 The best words in the best order. 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
 The earth keeps some vibration going
There in your heart, and that is you. 
Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
 The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. 
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
 There is another world, but it is in this one. 
Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci…
Paul Éluard (1895-1952)
 There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either. 
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
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