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A. E. Housman Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may ... Alfred de Musset Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times... Andre Gide "Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.... Carl Sandburg Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.... Carl Sandburg I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wa... Charles Baudelaire Always be a poet, even in prose.... Charles Simic Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equa... Charles Simic Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blan... Dennis Gabor Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music w... Don Marquis Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal... E. B. White A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips ... Edgar Allan Poe Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.... Eli Khamarov Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast ... E. M. Forster A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to... George Sand He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a... Gilbert K. Chesterton The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of ... Gustave Flaubert Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure ... Horace No poems can please for long or live that are written by w... Jean Cocteau The poet doesn't invent. He listens.... Jean Cocteau Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet ... Jean Cocteau A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nur... Jean Cocteau The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.... John Cage There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess noth... John Ciardi You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enou... John Keats Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of ... Joseph Joubert You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it w... Joseph Roux Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know... Kahlil Gibran A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from... Kahlil Gibran Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash o... Leonard Cohen Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burni... Lionel Trilling The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget... Marianne Moore Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real ... Novalis Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.... Oscar Wilde A poet can survive everything but a misprint.... Oscar Wilde He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write... Oscar Wilde All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.... Paul Engle Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetr... Paul Valery A poem is never finished, only abandoned.... Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is dis... Percy Bysshe Shelley Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.... Plato Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.... Rene Char A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.... Richard Rosen The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.... Rita Dove Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful... Robert Browning God is the perfect poet.... Robert Frost Poetry is what gets lost in translation.... Robert Frost Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the th... Robert Frost A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.... Robert Frost To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.... Robert Graves There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in ... Robert Penn Warren The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmati... Robert Penn Warren The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life... Russell Baker I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most... Salman Rushdie A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at fraud... Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believ... Samuel Johnson Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.... Samuel McChord Crothers A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to b... Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry,... Thomas Gray Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.... Thomas Hardy If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inq... T. S. Eliot Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape fr... T. S. Eliot Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.... Wallace Stevens A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.... Walt Whitman To have great poets, there must be great audiences.... William Hazlitt Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.... Yevgeny Yevtushenko A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is jus...

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