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- Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
- 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.
- There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
- Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
- To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.