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Posted on May 19, 2014

8 Quotes To Remind You That Poets Are Word Magicians

Sometimes people think poetry is boring or unintelligible or elitist or weird. The following 8 quotes prove that poetry can be a beautiful distillation of language and that poets themselves are really just philosophers who care about the sound of their words.