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For half a century, poetry was the paradise of the solemn fool—until I came along and set up my roller coaster.

— Nicanor Parra

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I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive.

Time has erased everything like a white sandstorm.

To break the vicious circle, a gratuitous act is recommended.

Rise in bread prices triggers another rise in bread prices.

We believe ourselves to be a country, yet the truth is that we are merely a landscape.

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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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