Top 8 Babette Deutsch Quotes

#1. Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

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#2. Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

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#3. 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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#4. History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.

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#5. 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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#6. How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still?

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#7. There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

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#8. 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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