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She was poetry
in a world
that was still
learning the
alphabet

To have great poets,
there must be great
audiences.
Walt Whitman
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Votes: 2

Robert Frost

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Votes: 2

Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. Votes: 2

Samuel Johnson

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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. Votes: 2

James Branch Cabell

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Votes: 2

Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Votes: 2

Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. Votes: 2

Paul Engle

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Votes: 2

Rita Dove

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But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Votes: 2

Robin Williams

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion, Votes: 2

T. S. Eliot

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Votes: 2

Robert Frost

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Votes: 2

Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Votes: 2

Khalil Gibran

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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Votes: 2

Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Votes: 2

Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Votes: 2

William Wordsworth

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Votes: 2

Leonard Cohen

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Votes: 2

Tom Schulman

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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. Votes: 2

Paul Engle

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. Votes: 2

Allen Ginsberg

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine. Votes: 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 things. Votes: 2

T. S. Eliot

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I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem. Votes: 2

Lucille Clifton

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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. Votes: 2

Carl Sandburg

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I am Poetry. Votes: 0

Evelyn Leilou Colon

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Poetry dovetails contradictions. Votes: 0

Marilyn Hacker

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poetry's object is truth ... Votes: 0

Christine de Pizan

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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes. Votes: 0

Gertrude Stein

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Poetry is sublime nonsense. Votes: 0

Marty Rubin

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Poetry keeps longing alive. Votes: 0

Robert Bly

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All poetry is misrepresentation. Votes: 0

Jeremy Bentham

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Language is fossil Poetry. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Slogan-making is not poetry. Votes: 0

Ernesto Cardenal

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Only poetry inspires poetry. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry cannot be translation Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Poetry = Anger x Imagination Votes: 0

Sherman Alexie

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Poetry makes nothing happen. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Poetry can magnify experience. Votes: 0

May Swenson

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It's history. It's poetry. Votes: 0

J. D. Salinger

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We all scribble poetry. Votes: 0

Homer

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Poetry contains nothing haphazard. Votes: 0

William Empson

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Poetry is devil's wine. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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The poetry is myself. Votes: 0

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Poetry is God's work. Votes: 0

Katy Lederer

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The poetry of speech. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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I love romantic poetry. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins

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Wine is bottled poetry. Votes: 0

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Votes: 0

Muriel Rukeyser

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Painting is silent poetry. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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Poetry is frosted fire. Votes: 0

J. Patrick Lewis

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Poetry is life distilled. Votes: 0

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Poetry is mostly hunches. Votes: 0

John Ashbery

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Music is poetry with personality, Votes: 0

Ross Lynch

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Poetry is a life-cherishing force. Votes: 0

Mary Oliver

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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Only poetry can address grief. Votes: 0

Starhawk

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All poetry is experimental poetry. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Let yourself become living poetry. Votes: 0

Rumi

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If poetry dies, nothing lives ! Votes: 0

Vihang A. Naik

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... poetry is fired by love ... Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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Poetry is the ultimate democracy. Votes: 0

Brendan Kennelly

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Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Votes: 0

Izaak Walton

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Music is poetry with personality Votes: 0

Ross Lynch

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I'm only interested in poetry. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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All poetry comes from repetition. Votes: 0

Kenneth Koch

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When power corrupts, poetry cleanses Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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In poetry, only emotion endures. Votes: 0

X. J. Kennedy

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Poetry is a dangerous gift ... Votes: 0

Grace Aguilar

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Explanations are such cheap poetry. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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I continue to explore poetry. Votes: 0

Vivek Shraya

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Poetry is talking on tiptoe. Votes: 0

George Meredith

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Music is poetry in motion. Votes: 0

P.M. Terrell

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Poetry to me is prayer ... Votes: 0

Anne Sexton

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Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. Votes: 0

George Farquhar

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I have been eating poetry. Votes: 0

Mark Strand

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I like to write poetry. Votes: 0

Rebecca Ferguson

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History is the new poetry. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Poetry is a mug's game. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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Poetry is the Devil's wine. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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I love to write poetry. Votes: 0

Shayne Ward

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The cliche is dead poetry. Votes: 0

Gerald Brenan

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Poetry is language in orbit. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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Poetry is the scholar's art. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Prose talks and poetry sings. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry is not a luxury. Votes: 0

Audre Lorde

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It's beautiful, it's poetry in motion. Votes: 0

Joe Teti

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Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. Votes: 0

Jack Spicer

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Poetry creates life; Science dissects death. Votes: 0

Frederick William Robertson

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Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. Votes: 0

Robert Gilfillan

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I see poetry as spiritual medicine. Votes: 0

Mahmoud Darwish

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Poetry is a game of loser-take-all. Votes: 0

Jean-Luc Godard

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Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Votes: 0

William Blake

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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. Votes: 0

James Broughton

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Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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Poetry is telling something to someone. Votes: 0

Marie Howe

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The finest poetry was first experience. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who, except the poets, reads poetry? Votes: 0

Babette Deutsch

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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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Poetry became my doctor, my lover... Votes: 0

J. Ivy

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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs. Votes: 0

Marianne Moore

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Poetry increases the feeling for reality. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced Votes: 0

Christopher Logue

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Thereâs no preparation for poetry. Votes: 0

Charles Simic

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Poetry is the deification of reality. Votes: 0

Edith Sitwell

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Poetry gives you permission to feel. Votes: 0

James Autry

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It is poetry that changes everything. Votes: 0

bell hooks

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Poetry is good for unleashing images. Votes: 0

Paula Rego

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Superstition is the poetry of life. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Votes: 0

Theodor Adorno

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Romance is the poetry of literature. Votes: 0

Suzanne Curchod

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Deprivation is the mother of poetry. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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Poetry and philosophy will become friends. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Poetry should only occupy the idle. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity. Votes: 0

Sally-Ann Roberts

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Poetry is the breath of beauty. Votes: 0

Leigh Hunt

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I read poetry to save time. Votes: 0

Marilyn Monroe

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Made poetry a mere mechanic art. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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Poetry is a means of redemption. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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The secret of poetry is cruelty. Votes: 0

Jon Anderson

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Poetry is the memory of language Votes: 0

Jacques Roubaud

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Habit has a kind of poetry. Votes: 0

Simone de Beauvoir

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Poetry is prose in slow motion. Votes: 0

Nicholson Baker

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It's not easy to define poetry. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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I'm not a great poetry fan. Votes: 0

Rupert Everett

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. Votes: 0

Charles Simic

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Poetry is a sort of homecoming. Votes: 0

Paul Celan

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Beer is prose. Wine is poetry. Votes: 0

Jennifer Rosen

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Poetry gave me back my voice. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Poetry is a break for freedom. Votes: 0

David Whyte

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Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen. Votes: 0

Reginald Horace Blyth

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Poetry is a necessity of life, Votes: 0

C.D. Wright

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Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Wine is poetry in a bottle. Votes: 0

Clifton Fadiman

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Prose is walking; poetry is flying Votes: 0

Galway Kinnell

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Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks. Votes: 0

Erin Morgenstern

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Eloquence is the poetry of prose. Votes: 0

William C. Bryant

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The crown of literature is poetry. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Poetry is the eloquence of verse. Votes: 0

William C. Bryant

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Science is the poetry of reality. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins

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Our best history is still poetry. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Money is a kind of poetry. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Poetry is an act of peace. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda

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Poetry and prayer are very similar Votes: 0

Carol Ann Duffy

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All poetry is political, to some degree. Votes: 0

Mike Young

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poetry is where the language is renewed. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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Poetry is what is gained in translation. Votes: 0

Joseph Brodsky

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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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Solitude is an essential element of poetry. Votes: 0

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. Votes: 0

James Tate

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I'm interested in the poetry of reality. Votes: 0

Christophe Lemaire

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More modern poetry is written than read. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry. Votes: 0

Giacomo Leopardi

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Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools. Votes: 0

Sarah Kay

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Personality is everything in art and poetry. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The truest poetry is the most feigning. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me. Votes: 0

Philip Larkin

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religion is poetry, - poetry is religion. Votes: 0

Marie Corelli

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Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. Votes: 0

Dylan Thomas

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Votes: 0

Novalis

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Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned. Votes: 0

Emma Lazarus

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I really came to literature through poetry. Votes: 0

Cheryl Strayed

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I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. Votes: 0

Isaac Rosenberg

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Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied Votes: 0

Gail Carriger

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I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! Votes: 0

Israel Zangwill

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Poetry cannot take sides except with life. Votes: 0

Stephen Spender

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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation." Votes: 0

Natalie Merchant

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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary. Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry is what makes the invisible appear. Votes: 0

Nathalie Sarraute

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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors. Votes: 0

Roberto Bolano

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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone. Votes: 0

Natasha Trethewey

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Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The poetry of country music will survive. Votes: 0

Rodney Crowell

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. Votes: 0

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Gently touching with the charm of poetry. Votes: 0

Lucretius

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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. Votes: 0

Natalie Merchant

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More people write poetry than read it. Votes: 0

George Carlin

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One must read poetry with one's nerves. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. Votes: 0

J. Patrick Lewis

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Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Votes: 0

Rod McKuen

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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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Poetry is when you talk to yourself. Votes: 0

William Hughes Mearns

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What can be explained is not poetry. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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I find I cannot exist without Poetry Votes: 0

John Keats

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Why then we should drop into poetry. Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made. Votes: 0

Anne Carson

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A lot happens by accident in poetry. Votes: 0

Howard Nemerov

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Poetry is the disease of the brain. Votes: 0

Alfred de Vigny

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Life is a never-ending poetry of love. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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No one ever expects poetry to sell. Votes: 0

Alan Lightman

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Football is the poetry of a motion. Votes: 0

Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

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Hymns are the poetry of the people. Votes: 0

John Betjeman

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Poetry is a religion with no hope. Votes: 0

Jean Cocteau

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After a full belly all is poetry. Votes: 0

Frank McCourt

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Poetry lies its way to the truth. Votes: 0

John Ciardi

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Love is the poetry of the senses. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Poetry is the enemy of the poem. Votes: 0

Stanley Kunitz

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Is not poetry the food of love? Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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History after all is the true poetry. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Why should poetry have to make sense? Votes: 0

Charlie Chaplin

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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Votes: 0

Joseph Roux

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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense. Votes: 0

Isaac Newton

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Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul. Votes: 0

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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There is but one poetry,--true poetry. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Votes: 0

Philibert Joseph Roux

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Poetry is the purest form of insanity. Votes: 0

Augusta Jane Evans

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The real thing creates its own poetry. Votes: 0

Anzia Yezierska

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Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry. Votes: 0

Georges Bataille

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There can be no poetry after Auschwitz. Votes: 0

Theodor Adorno

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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. Votes: 0

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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She lives the poetry she cannot write. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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You can't write poetry on the computer. Votes: 0

Quentin Tarantino

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Poetry is a presentiment of the truth. Votes: 0

Anna Kamienska

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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry. Votes: 0

Marianne Moore

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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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poetry had everything to teach me about life. Votes: 0

Diane Ackerman

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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Poetry is that which is lost in translation. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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Poetry is music written for the human voice. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived. Votes: 0

Anne Hebert

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Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry. Votes: 0

Sandra Cisneros

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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination. Votes: 0

Marianne Moore

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Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry? Votes: 0

William Edgar

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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. Votes: 0

Wale

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Votes: 0

Plato

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Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. Votes: 0

Michael Eric Dyson

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Poetry surprises us with what we already know. Votes: 0

John Fuller

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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Votes: 0

Johann Georg Hamann

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Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience. Votes: 0

Herbert McCabe

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I make no distinction between poetry and painting. Votes: 0

Joan Miro

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Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. Votes: 0

Mary Caroline Richards

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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. Votes: 0

Helen Fisher

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Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. Votes: 0

J. Patrick Lewis

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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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It probably started in poetry; almost everything does. Votes: 0

Raymond Chandler

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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors. Votes: 0

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry. Votes: 0

Robert Bly

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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception. Votes: 0

Patricia Hampl

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide. Votes: 0

Octavio Paz

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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope. Votes: 0

Susan Griffin

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Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. Votes: 0

Ellen Hopkins

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San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme. Votes: 0

Patricia Montandon

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Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space. Votes: 0

Hafez

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. Votes: 0

James Dickey

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Poetry is the dark side of the moon, Votes: 0

Charles Wright

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Cosmos and its stars; poet and his poetry! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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one of the springs of poetry is joy ... Votes: 0

May Sarton

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I think poetry is best read to oneself. Votes: 0

Rickie Lee Jones

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The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry. Votes: 0

Louis Pasteur

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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound

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Poetry must be as well written as prose. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound

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Superstition is part of the poetry of life. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Writing poetry is a state of free float. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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No time for poetry but exactly what is. Votes: 0

Jack Kerouac

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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry Votes: 0

Moliere

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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul. Votes: 0

Henrik Ibsen

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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry. Votes: 0

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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I don't want to bury anything in poetry. Votes: 0

Sharon Van Etten

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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. Votes: 0

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. Votes: 0

Patti Smith

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Poetry: the best words in the best order. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom. Votes: 0

Michele Brenton

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We are surrounded by poetry on all sides... Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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Poetry is the most bodily of the arts. Votes: 0

Robert Pinsky

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Poetry is a totally different art than film. Votes: 0

Stan Brakhage

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I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry. Votes: 0

Francois Coppee

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The essence of poetry is will and passion. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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You speak As one who fed on poetry. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Votes: 0

Mario Cuomo

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The poetry of the earth is never dead. Votes: 0

John Keats

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Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. Votes: 0

Brooks Atkinson

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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace. Votes: 0

Ovid

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Poetry is more a threshold than a path. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. Votes: 0

Eminem

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In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry. Votes: 0

Arzum Uzun

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To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry. Votes: 0

Julie Harris

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Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound

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A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. Votes: 0

Jim Jarmusch

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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. Votes: 0

Jean Cocteau

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The secret wish of poetry is to stop time. Votes: 0

Charles Simic

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry. Votes: 0

Anne Hebert

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The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry. Votes: 0

Andrei Tarkovsky

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we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry. Votes: 0

Cherrie Moraga

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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life. Votes: 0

Alphonse de Lamartine

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In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival. Votes: 0

Mary Caroline Richards

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There is a kind of poetry in simple fact. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else. Votes: 0

Kim Hyesoon

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Votes: 0

Thomas Gray

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All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite. Votes: 0

Robert Browning

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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. Votes: 0

Taylor Momsen

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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. Votes: 0

Stephen Spender

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Dont be someone elses slogan because you are poetry. Votes: 0

Sandra Bullock

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The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Votes: 0

Camille Paglia

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Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. Votes: 0

Phyllis McGinley

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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. Votes: 0

Richard Eberhart

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Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate. Votes: 0

James Fenton

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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. Votes: 0

John Lennon

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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing. Votes: 0

Jay-Z

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Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence. Votes: 0

Genevieve Taggard

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Poetry is a big space and I love it. Votes: 0

Selima Hill

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One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things. Votes: 0

Gaston Bachelard

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I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Votes: 0

Chang-Rae Lee

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It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. Votes: 0

Robert Hass

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Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind. Votes: 0

Sonia Orwell

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I write poetry in order to live more fully. Votes: 0

Judith Rodriguez

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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no poetry where there are no mistakes. Votes: 0

Joy Harjo

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History is still in large measure poetry to me. Votes: 0

Jacob Burckhardt

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Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer. Votes: 0

Dejan Stojanovic

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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. Votes: 0

James Broughton

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. Votes: 0

Jose Marti

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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes Votes: 0

Isaac Barrow

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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup. Votes: 0

Jennifer Grotz

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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us! Votes: 0

Mahmoud Darwish

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century." Votes: 0

Jose Marti

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I like the way the prose and poetry interact. Votes: 0

Rachel Zucker

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Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed. Votes: 0

Osip Mandelstam

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Votes: 0

Don Marquis

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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. Votes: 0

Paul Valery

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Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Votes: 0

Stephane Mallarme

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Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum. Votes: 0

Rumi

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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry Votes: 0

Paul Muldoon

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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. Votes: 0

Dante Alighieri

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I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Woodson

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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. Votes: 0

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Votes: 0

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. Votes: 0

David Biespiel

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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. Votes: 0

Phyllis McGinley

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Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life. Votes: 0

Shirley Hazzard

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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Votes: 0

Gertrude Stein

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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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As long as music survives, poetry will never die. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts. Votes: 0

Frank Stanford

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I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips. Votes: 0

Charlie Sheen

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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. Votes: 0

David Hare

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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it. Votes: 0

Irrfan Khan

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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake. Votes: 0

Ernesto Cardenal

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My poetry definitely comes out of a female body. Votes: 0

Rachel Zucker

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Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics Votes: 0

Gary Snyder

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Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises... Votes: 0

H. P. Lovecraft

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In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth. Votes: 0

Deborah Keenan

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I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult. Votes: 0

Jack Gleeson

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I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember. Votes: 0

Stanley Kunitz

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Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history. Votes: 0

Stephen Dobyns

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Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it? Votes: 0

Reginald Shepherd

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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry. Votes: 0

Flemming Rose

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Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language, Votes: 0

Laurence Overmire

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The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm. Votes: 0

Kim Hyesoon

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Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. Votes: 0

Gunter Brus

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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences. Votes: 0

Octavio Paz

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion Votes: 0

Coco Chanel

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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell Votes: 0

Kenneth Slessor

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The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion. Votes: 0

Masaoka Shiki

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Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. Votes: 0

Lawrence Durrell

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Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life. Votes: 0

Josephine Hart

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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. Votes: 0

George Will

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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. Votes: 0

Carol Ann Duffy

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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration Votes: 0

William Blake

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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. Votes: 0

Ansel Adams

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I read a lot of poetry. I read some history. Votes: 0

Frederick Busch

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I never had much education in English poetry as such, Votes: 0

Anne Carson

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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. Votes: 0

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. Votes: 0

Misha Collins

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High School is the place where poetry goes to die. Votes: 0

Billy Collins

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs. Votes: 0

Jenny Offill

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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. Votes: 0

Jean Cocteau

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Poetry must be made by all and not by one. Votes: 0

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton

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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life. Votes: 0

Alexandra Cousteau

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Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived. Votes: 0

Vanna Bonta

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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. Votes: 0

Russell Baker

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You have to have been in love to write poetry. Votes: 0

Raymond Carver

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When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology Votes: 0

John Haynes Holmes

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The act of making poetry is an act of hope. Votes: 0

Natasha Trethewey

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Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. Votes: 0

J. Patrick Lewis

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Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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I have my books and my poetry to protect me Votes: 0

Paul Simon

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock. Votes: 0

Delmore Schwartz

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I believe poetry has very little to do with memory. Votes: 0

Nick Flynn

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My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything. Votes: 0

J. Boone

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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. Votes: 0

Caroline Kennedy

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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. Votes: 0

James Dickey

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Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer

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There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry. Votes: 0

D. Antoinette Foy

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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Poetry calls into question what it means to be human Votes: 0

Sandra Alcosser

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I never had much education in English poetry as such. Votes: 0

Anne Carson

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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. Votes: 0

Georges Braque

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What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Votes: 0

Czeslaw Milosz

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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity. Votes: 0

Marianne Moore

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Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory Votes: 0

Jean-Claude Ellena

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Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so... Votes: 0

Izaak Walton

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. Votes: 0

George Orwell

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There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry. Votes: 0

Babette Deutsch

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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. Votes: 0

Mark Strand

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They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry. Votes: 0

Mary Butts

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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. Votes: 0

Peter Davison

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Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert. Votes: 0

Michael Ondaatje

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Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry. Votes: 0

Yang Wanli

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We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry. Votes: 0

Mark Strand

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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies. Votes: 0

Amy Lowell

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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. Votes: 0

Bernie Taupin

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With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. Votes: 0

Mark Knopfler

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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit. Votes: 0

Linda Hogan

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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted. Votes: 0

T. E. Hulme

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There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man. Votes: 0

Philip Gibbs

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I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. Votes: 0

Stephen Fry

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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult. Votes: 0

Jack Gleeson

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Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter. Votes: 0

Robert Hass

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Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy. Votes: 0

William Wycherley

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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ... Votes: 0

Edith Sitwell

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Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age. Votes: 0

Babette Deutsch

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Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved. Votes: 0

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry Votes: 0

Joseph Joubert

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Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. Votes: 0

Juan Felipe Herrera

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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. Votes: 0

Rick Springfield

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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry. Votes: 0

John Shirley

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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Votes: 0

Robert Fitzgerald

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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry Votes: 0

Amber Tamblyn

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Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. Votes: 0

Nicolas Poussin

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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. Votes: 0

Muriel Rukeyser

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I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry. Votes: 0

Lana Del Rey

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It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda

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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry. Votes: 0

Felix Dennis

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When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life. Votes: 0

Sigmund Freud

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We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event. Votes: 0

Robert Lowell

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I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well. Votes: 0

Emily Susan Rapp

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An art is a poetry but only a few can read it. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry. Votes: 0

John Wain

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Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. Votes: 0

Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it. Votes: 0

A. E. Housman

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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. Votes: 0

Lucille Clifton

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A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry. Votes: 0

Ben Johnson

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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. Votes: 0

Omari Hardwick

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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Votes: 0

Czeslaw Milosz

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The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. Votes: 0

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow. Votes: 0

Robert Browning

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I love poetry and my country above all else in the world, Votes: 0

Fyodor Tyutchev

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But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read! Votes: 0

Katherine Mansfield

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Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us. Votes: 0

Hayden Carruth

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one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry. Votes: 0

Jane Campion

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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. Votes: 0

Colin Quinn

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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. Votes: 0

John Cage

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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write Votes: 0

Colin Quinn

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

Nikki Giovanni

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The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

Sean O Faolain

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I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

Sharon Creech

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He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

Titian

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Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Van Wyck Brooks

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I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

Yuriy Tarnawsky

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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Austin O'Malley

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But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Cassandra Clare

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I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Czeslaw Milosz

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If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...

George Eliot

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Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

I. A. Richards

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Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Joseph Joubert

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Sholeh WolpÃ© poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Nathalie Handal

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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Philibert Joseph Roux

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Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

Richard F. Thomas

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

T. S. Eliot

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Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

Vanna Bonta

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Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.

Vicente Aleixandre

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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

W. H. Auden

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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

W. S. Merwin

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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

Ama Ata Aidoo

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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Amy Lowell

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I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Anthony Hopkins

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Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Diane Wakoski

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Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

HalldÃ³r Laxness

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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Irving Stone

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When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

Kim Hyesoon

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Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Nizar Qabbani

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I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

Paul Fry

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Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Philip Larkin

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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

Robert Bly

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Robert Frost

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I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

Virginia Woolf

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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

William Wordsworth

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Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

Armond White

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Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Benjamin Franklin

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Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

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Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

David Hockney

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Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

Geoffrey Hill

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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Georges Seurat

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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

J. Michael Straczynski

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Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

Jairam Ramesh

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Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

John Dryden

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Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.

Thomas Dolby

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Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Wallace Stevens

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The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

Wallace Stevens

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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

A. E. Housman

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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Abdul Kalam

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

Adrienne Rich

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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

Anne Sexton

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When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Chinua Achebe

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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

Harvey Jackins

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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

Isaac Rosenberg

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Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

John Steinbeck

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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Julie Taymor

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My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Marina Tsvetaeva

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Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

Robert Browning

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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Sylvia Plath

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Fictionand poetry and drama cleanse the doors of perception.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Voltaire

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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldnât know what else to be.

Alice Notley

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Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

Charles Simic

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One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

Christian Wiman

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I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Dreezy

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Eugenio Montale

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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Henry David Thoreau

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Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Niels Bohr

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept

T. E. Hulme

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True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

William Faulkner

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

William Wordsworth

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If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Ada Lovelace

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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Alice Munro

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Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

C. S. Lewis

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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

Carl Sandburg

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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Charles Olson

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The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

Earle Birney

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Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Eddie Izzard

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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

Frederick Buechner

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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

John Dryden

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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Karl Lagerfeld

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I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

Kit Harington

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Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

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There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Marianne Moore

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Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.

Mark Doty

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Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Marvin Bell

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The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Matthew Arnold

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Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Samuel Palmer

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Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

Shimon Peres

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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

Czeslaw Milosz

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Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

Denise Levertov

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Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

Gerhart Hauptmann

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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Jean Cocteau

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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Jose Marti

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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Norman MacCaig

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Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

Ruben Dario

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Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

Stanley Kunitz

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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

Wallace Stevens

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The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

William Empson

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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

Oprah Winfrey

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Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

Amit Ray

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I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Billy Collins

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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

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I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

Federico Garcia Lorca

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Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking...

Gerald Stern

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Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Janet Erskine Stuart

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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

John Maynard Keynes

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Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

Karl Shapiro

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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

Lord Byron

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Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

Louise Bogan

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

Steve Grand

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If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

Susan Howe

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Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Walter Savage Landor

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I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry.

Clinton D. Powell

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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Elizabeth Edwards

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Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

Grant Morrison

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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Matthew Arnold

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I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

Paul Engle

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Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

Richard M. Weaver

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Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

Robert Breault

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Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Rory Sutherland

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Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

W. H. Auden

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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Amiri Baraka

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Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

Arda Collins

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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Augustus William Hare

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Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

Campbell McGrath

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Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Chinua Achebe

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No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

E. W. Howe

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Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Edmond Jabes

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Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Federico Fellini

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Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

Henry David Thoreau

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The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

Jacob Bronowski

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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Mark Twain

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One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Mary Oliver

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For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Maxwell Bodenheim

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Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Vicente Aleixandre

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Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

Yang Wanli

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Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

Anne Sexton

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Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

Charles Simic

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Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.

Dennis Nurkse

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I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

Dylan Thomas

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Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

e. e. cummings

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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

Edward Abbey

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poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

Helen Bevington

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Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Jack Kerouac

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Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

Jean Cocteau

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So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

John Dryden

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You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Madame de Stael

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Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

Mary Ruefle

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Look aroundâthere's only one thing of danger for you hereâpoetry.

Pablo Neruda

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I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

Rosanne Cash

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Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.

Antonio Gala

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Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Camille Paglia

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Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

Charles Bukowski

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My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

Countee Cullen

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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry...

Erica Jong

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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Julianna Baggott

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poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

Marjorie Holmes

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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

May Sarton

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My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

Patti Smith

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Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

R. S. Thomas

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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Tom Wesselmann

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I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

Channing Tatum

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Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

David Biespiel

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I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

Frank Turner

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater

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Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

John Dryden

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Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Joseph Howe

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For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

Nathalie Sarraute

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Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

Northrop Frye

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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

Pablo Neruda

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There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Richard Dawkins

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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Robert Frost

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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.

Russell Simmons

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As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

Steve Chalke

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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

Wallace Stevens

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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

Willa Cather

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We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

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Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Andrei Voznesensky

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Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

Benjamin Clementine

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Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

Carolyn Forche

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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

Edith SÃ¶dergran

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I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

Edward Hirsch

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Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Eileen Myles

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Frederick William Robertson

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Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Irving Layton

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I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

Jacqueline Woodson

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Maxine Kumin

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Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

Sandra Cisneros

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The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Stevie Smith

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There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

William Shenstone

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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

Antonio Machado

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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Audre Lorde

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A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Edward Thomas

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I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

Etheridge Knight

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To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Frank Bidart

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Honore de Balzac

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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

Horace

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Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

James Crumley

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Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Kenneth Koch

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Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

Linda Pastan

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In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

Li-Young Lee

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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

Natalie Goldberg

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

Thomas Carlyle

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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

Umberto Eco

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Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Adrian Mitchell

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There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

Ali Smith

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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

Ambrose Bierce

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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Billy Collins

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Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Carl Sandburg

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The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

Jake Adam York

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I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

John Ashbery

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I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

Louise Closser Hale

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I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

Michael Helm

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Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Rabindranath Tagore

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Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

Robert Frost

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Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

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News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

Eliza Griswold

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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Herman Melville

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Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

James Dickey

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[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

Lemon Andersen

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If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

Luis Gonzalez

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If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Screw poetry, it's you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

Margaret Atwood

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Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Mark Strand

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poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

May Sarton

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Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

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Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

Tom Holt

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Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

Charles Stross

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A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

Edward Hirsch

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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Ernst Haas

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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Honore de Balzac

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Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Juvenal

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I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Margaret Atwood

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Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ...

May Sarton

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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

Robert Hass

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

Saul Williams

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Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

Trevor McDonald

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I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

Wendy C. Ortiz

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Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

Delia Sherman

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I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

Edward Hirsch

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Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

Gilbert Highet

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Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

H. L. Mencken

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