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Who needs poetry? All of us do. Poetry has always been the voice of the inner self, the carrier of revelations, dreams, and visions that often defy expression in ordinary prose.

— Jane Roberts Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time (1975)

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You cannot love someone you do not know -- not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.

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Civilizations, both past and present represent projections of inner selfhood, and mirror the state of the mass psyche at any given time.

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The message of the God of All Life is in all of nature, everywhere. If you really listen, you'll hear it.

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The waking consciousness, dear friends, is not the ego. The ego is only that portion of the waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation.

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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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