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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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PoetryMusæo contigens cuncta lepore. — Poetry
"Musæo contigens cuncta lepore."
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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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"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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