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"An insult and a challenge. Those were my own moment of (rude) awakening. They drew me to poetry."

— Chijioke Amu-Nnadi

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"What we write is a spiritual rendering of life; its origins and ending."

"Art transcends the categories of geography, time and gender."

"Poetry bears the spirit of the eternal."

"Art comes to us because we are, essentially, fragile people."

"We have no authority – just authorship, I believe – over what we write."

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

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)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

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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