By Milan Kundera
Submitted by Camelia Lissenhold
Date: 2010 Jul 19
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On Poetry

"...to understand is to merge and to identify with.  That is the secret of poetry.  We consume ourselves in the beloved woman, we consume ourselves in the idea we believe, we burn in the landscape we are moved by."