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Robert Penn Warren
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."
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Andre Gide
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
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T. S. Eliot
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these thi
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Andre Gide
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
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Robert Penn Warren
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."
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Billy Collins
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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Robert Frost
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
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Robert Herrick
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Then this immensive cup
Of aromatic wine,
Catullus, I quaff up
To that terse muse of thine.
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Wallace Stevens
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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
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Wallace Stevens
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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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John Updike
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I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
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Thornton Wilder
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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
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William Wordsworth
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which
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Edith Sitwell
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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Edith Sitwell
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Oscar Wilde
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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Oscar Wilde
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Walt Whitman
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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E. B. White
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Robert Penn Warren
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
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Robert Penn Warren
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.
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Lionel Trilling
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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
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Dylan Thomas
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You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
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Wallace Stevens
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Charles Simic
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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Carl Sandburg
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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George Sand
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
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Salman Rushdie
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Joseph Roux
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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
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Richard Rosen
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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Plato
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Novalis
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Marianne Moore
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Eli Khamarov
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
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John Keats
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Joseph Joubert
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Samuel Johnson
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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A. E. Housman
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Horace
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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Paul Engle
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
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Oscar Wilde
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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Adrian Mitchell
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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Leonard Cohen
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Plutarch
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order.
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Robert Graves
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
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John Keats
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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Joseph Roux
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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
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John Cage
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Carl Sandburg
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Edith Sitwell
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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Robert Frost
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Joseph Joubert
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Novalis
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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William Hazlitt
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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Thomas Carlyle
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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Rita Dove
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Wallace Stevens
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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
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Charles Baudelaire
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
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Samuel Johnson
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Plato
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Poetry the best words in the best order.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Thomas Gray
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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Dennis Gabor
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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Jean Giraudoux
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
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Charles Simic
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
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Lord Byron
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Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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Gustave Flaubert
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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POPE: _Prol. to Satires,_ Line 186.
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And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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Marianne Moore
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 441.
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It is not poetry that makes men poor; For few do write that were not so before.
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John Ruskin
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It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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John Keats
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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A. E. Housman
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
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Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
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"It's poetry, fool. you don't grammar flame poetry."
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Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
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Puns are bad - but poetry is verse.
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Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
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There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
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[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
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Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
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Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.
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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religio
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The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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"Mary had a little lamb, with mint jelly" - Dot's Poetry Corner
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"Klingon men read love poetry. And duck a lot." - Worf
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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
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"Language is fossil poetry." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry at you." - HHGTTG
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"They read love poetry and duck a lot." -- Worf
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"He reads love poetry He ducks a lot." -- Worf
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"Makes me want to write poetry - or bake a ham, I forget which." - Dot
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"Three monkeys, ten minutes." - Dogbert, on Dilbert's poetry
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"As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee." - Vogon poetry
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"I recognize it. This is Data's poetry." - Riker
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