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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Poetry

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“Language is fossil poetry.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The true poem is the poet's mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The finest poetry was first experience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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