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- I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as… — Georges Braque
- True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. — Gaston Bachelard
- True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. — Eugenio Montale
- Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and… — Benjamin Jowett
- True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should… — Claudio Magris
- It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard
- I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams
- To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. — Egerton Brydges
- In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was… — Norman MacCaig
- The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler
- Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the… — William Osler