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The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

— Louise Glück

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More quotes by Louise Glück

We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.

Meadowlands (1996)

The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.

Ararat (1990)

Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.

Descending Figure (1980)

I caution you as I was never cautioned
you will never let go, you will never be satiated.

The Seven Ages (2001)

The poem will not survive on content but through voice. By voice I mean the style of thought, for which a style of speech never convincingly substitutes.

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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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