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About Poetry 

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. 
When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness 
and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. 
   -John F. Kennedy

No man can read Hardy's poems collected but that his own life, 
and forgotten moments of it, will come back to him, in a flash 
here and an hour there. Have you a better test of true poetry? 
   -Ezra Pound

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. 
   -Plato 

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. 
   -Novalis 

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might 
have let him alone.
   -Thomas Hardy

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
   -G.K. Chesterton