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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.
Author: T. S. Eliot
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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Author: Dennis Gabor
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation
and specificity.
Author: Walter Mosley
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CONSIDERING THE VOID
When I behold the charm
of evening skies, their lulling endurance;
the patterns of stars with names
of bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin;
other planets that the Voyager showed
were like and so unlike our own,
with all their diverse moons,
bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces;
comets with their streaming tails
bent by pressure from our sun;
the skyscape of our Milky Way
holding in its shimmering disc
an infinity of suns
(or say a thousand billion);
knowing there are holes of darkness
gulping mass and even light,
knowing that this galaxy of ours
is one of multitudes
in what we call the heavens,
it troubles me. It troubles me.
-President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest,
about the Revolutionary War).
Author: President Jimmy Carter
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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.
Author: Paul Engle
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Author: Robert Graves
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Author: Marianne Moore
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Author: Salman Rushdie
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Author: Wallace Stevens
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
Author: E. B. White
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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Author: Dylan Thomas
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Author: Walt Whitman
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Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
Author: William Butler Yeats
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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Author: Rene Char
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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.
Author: Robert Frost
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Author: Thomas Hardy
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Author: John Keats
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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
Author: Stephen Mallarme
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
Author: Earle Birney
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Author: Robert Frost
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Author: Plato
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Author: Robert Frost
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A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
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God is the perfect poet.
Author: Robert Browning
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Author: Paul Engle
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Author: Marianne Moore
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Author: Novalis
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Author: Aristotle
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Author: Robert Frost
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Author: Randall Jarell
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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Author: Sylvia Plath
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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