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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

"Young Poets". Edith Sitwell's lecture (1957); later published in "Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961" (p. 56), 1964.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.

Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in "Discussions about Language", 1933, in Robert J. Pranger "Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy" (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles "Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory" (p. 28), 1993.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

"In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.408, University of Missouri Press