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- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. — John Ruskin
- All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
- It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. — John Ruskin
- I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. — Muriel Rukeyser
- If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. — Muriel Rukeyser
- Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. — Muriel Rukeyser