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> [Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/beauty-makes-one-lose-one-s-head-poetry-is-born-of-this-decapitation/)

[Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/)

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> [The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-arthur-ward/the-greatest-ideas-the-most-profound-thoughts-and-the-most-beautiful/)

[William Arthur Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-arthur-ward/)

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> [“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luis-alexandre-ribeiro-branco/poetry-is-born-of-a-lack-of-love-born-of-a-crazy-and-impossible/)

[Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luis-alexandre-ribeiro-branco/)

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> [“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kamand-kojouri/i-am-certain-my-love-that-poetry-was-born-only-after-your-birth/)

[Kamand Kojouri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kamand-kojouri/)

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> [“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/good-poetry-isn-t-born-when-everything-makes-sense-good-poetry-is/)

[Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/)

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> [Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nizar-qabbani/before-you-came-the-world-was-prose-now-poetry-is-born/)

[Nizar Qabbani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nizar-qabbani/)

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> [Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/poetry-is-only-born-after-painful-journeys-into-the-vast-regions-of/)

[Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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> [Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wislawa-szymborska/unfortunately-poetry-is-not-born-in-noise-in-crowds-or-on-a-bus-there/)

[Wislawa Szymborska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wislawa-szymborska/)

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> [I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/i-grew-up-in-this-town-my-poetry-was-born-between-the-hill-and-the/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

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> [Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daisaku-ikeda/living-here-on-earth-we-breathe-the-rhythms-of-a-universe-that/)

[Daisaku Ikeda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daisaku-ikeda/)

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> [True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-r-lawhead/true-poetry-is-born-of-scrutiny-scrutiny-the-son-of-meditation/)

[Stephen R. Lawhead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-r-lawhead/)

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