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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert Frost
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Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare," Intimate
Journals, 1864
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The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other
verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that
might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history,
since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are
singulars. ~Aristotle, On Poetics
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and
appear almost a remembrance. ~John Keats
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat. ~Robert Frost
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ~James Branch Cabell
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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around
things. ~Stephen Mallarme
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ~John Cage
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
~Thomas Hardy
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The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then
~Roger McGough
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Browsing the dim back corner
Of a musty antique shop
Opened an old book of poetry
Angels flew out from the pages
I caught the whiff of a soul
The ink seemed fresh as today
Was that voices whispering?
The tree of the paper still grows.
~Pixie Foudre
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God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning
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You can't write poetry on the computer. ~Quentin Tarantino
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points
to nothing but itself. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough
things. ~Robert Frost
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If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow. ~T. Guillemets
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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without
pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and
versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called
ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. ~Edgar Allan Poe
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The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end,
the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we
see is life. ~Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review, 22 March 1958
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to
untie. ~Jean Cocteau
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
~Jean Cocteau
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[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~Robert Frost, "The Figure a Poem
Makes," Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. ~Edith
Södergran
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain
unsoundness of mind. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
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