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title: "2 Sense Poet Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-prosaic-man-sees-things-badly-or-with-the-bodily-sense-but-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat certain general themes - time, place, memory, God, history, class, race, beauty, love, poetry, identity. The core identity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-joseph/my-sense-of-the-poet-is-classical-the-poet-is-one-who-makes-poems-in/)

[Lawrence Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-joseph/)

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