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- Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. — Samuel Johnson
- When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. — Muhammad Iqbal
- Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. — James Russell Lowell
- I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. — Seamus Heaney
- As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney
- Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney