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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert
Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around
1955
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ~Carl Sandburg
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To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson
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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. ~Carl Sandburg,
Poetry Considered
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Byshe Shelley
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~Percy Shelley, A
Defence of Poetry, 1821
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has
never written a line in all his life. ~George Sand, 1851
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ~Yevgeny
Yentushenko, The Sole Survivor, 1982
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If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have
been no poem. ~Author Unknown
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the
message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who
says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." ~Robert Penn Warren, "The Themes of Robert
Frost," Hopwood Lecture, 1947
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice
from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ~Pablo Neruda, quoted
in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985
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Who can tell the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out....
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A.E. Housman
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Poetry is life distilled. ~Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ~William Hazlitt
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If conditions aren't right
The poem won't come out
It will sit inside and stew
And emerge a different beast.
~Ed Northstrum
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Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. He doesn't
eat much and doesn't read much, but listens well and is a most gracious host. ~Astrid
Alauda
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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. ~Joseph Roux, Meditations
of a Parish Priest
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every
line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every
Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920
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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. ~Richard Rosen
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking
about his art than he can by practicing it. ~W.H. Auden
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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? ~W.H. Auden
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Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. ~Philip
Larkin
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