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You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick [...] But you're back again where you began. You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words.

— Dylan Thomas

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A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God.

Poetic Manifesto (1951)

Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Fern Hill (1946)

After the first death, there is no other.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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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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