7 Quotes by Babette Deutsch


  • Author Babette Deutsch
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    Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

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    The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

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    The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

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