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"There exists a chance of every poem getting changed while reaching every reader. This ‘getting changed’ is a form of ‘getting translated’, in a way. So, every assimilation of any poem is a translation."
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"I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive."
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Poetry is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhyth
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"A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyones knowledge of himself and the world around him."
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"The poem... is a little myth of mans capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see—it is, rather, a light by which we may see—and what we see is life."
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"In the hexameter rises the fountains silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back."
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"Made poetry a mere mechanic art."
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"The quality of poetry is not strained. It has not to abide our repeated questions. It tests and is not tested. Every true lover of poetry knows that when he cites great lines it is not the poetry but the hearer that is to be judged."
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