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Virgil70–19 BC

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate,
And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate,
Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore.

Virgil on poetry

The Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I

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Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
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Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms

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