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> [If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-leithauser/if-we-do-not-learn-by-heart-the-heart-does-not-feel-the-rhythms-of/)

[Brad Leithauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-leithauser/)

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## More by Brad Leithauser

> [If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-leithauser/if-we-do-not-learn-by-heart-the-heart-does-not-feel-the-rhythms-of/)

[Brad Leithauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-leithauser/)

> [“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-leithauser/to-my-mind-it-s-one-of-the-deepest-gratifications-the-poet-or-fiction/)

[Brad Leithauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-leithauser/)

> [“It is the good who do not sleep.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-leithauser/it-is-the-good-who-do-not-sleep/)

[Brad Leithauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-leithauser/)

> [If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-leithauser/if-one-were-forced-to-select-a-single-word-to-exemplify-bishop-s/)

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> [I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-leithauser/i-cling-to-the-optimistic-belief-that-the-haphazard-and-the-hopscotch/)

[Brad Leithauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-leithauser/)

> [I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-leithauser/i-read-not-so-long-ago-about-the-construction-of-a-large-telescope-in/)

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