Ralph Waldo Emerson Poetry Quotations
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- Edward Hirsch
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- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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- Robert Pinsky
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- Carl Sandburg
- Juan Felipe Herrera
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Writing Quotes
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.