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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Art
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Everything
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Personality
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Beauty
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Creation
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Poetry
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
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Begins
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Poetry
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Sense
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
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Love
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Love Is
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Poetry
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
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Biscuits
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Poetry
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Synthesis
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon
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Age
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Only
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Poetry
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Age
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Circumstances
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History