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"Poetry is the most human of arts, for it is language itself that makes us human.”

— Gémino H. Abad

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“To write, then, is to get real, to breathe life into language.”

"Man is the only being among other beings on earth that seeks truth in knowledge.”

“Every reader apprehends that meaningfulness or diwa in light of his own life experience, in his own historical time and cultural space.”

"Truth-seeking, then, is his being or essence as human.”

“The imagination, to repeat, makes real to the mind what the mind abstracts from our experience, what the mind perceives or intuits in the world.”

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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