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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
~Leonard Cohen
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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating
poetry. ~Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry," Reasons for Moving, 1968
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. ~André Gide
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Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we
make poetry. ~W.B. Yeats
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul Valéry
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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~Thomas Gray
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. ~Edmund Burke
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. ~Charles Simic
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. ~Robert Frost
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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. ~Paul
Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as
geometry. ~Gustave Flaubert
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~Sainte-Beuve, Portraits
littéraires, 1862
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~Joseph Joubert
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
~Alfred de Musset, Le Poète déchu, 1839
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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.
~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919
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Poets aren't very useful
Because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.
~Ogden Nash
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages
of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that
he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost
express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever
creating anything is past. ~Robert Frost
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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. ~Christopher Fry
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not
realise. ~Oscar Wilde
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Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that
in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. ~Thomas Hill
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Breathe-in experience,
breathe-out poetry.
~Muriel Rukeyser
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the
human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only
step aside when the poet passes. ~W. Somerset Maugham
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in
granite. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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