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We have featured below the most famous
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All the arts come from God and are to
be respected as divine inventions
- John Calvin Quote / Quotation.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive,
a thing which enters into one's soul,
and does not startle it or amaze it
with itself, but with its subject
- John Keats
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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything
in existence because he has no identity;
he is
continually informing and filling some
other body
- Keats Quote / Quotation
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit
of all knowledge
- William Wordsworth Quote / Quotation
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Poets utter great and wise things which
they do not themselves understand
- Plato
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The audience for social poetry is here
and waiting on poetry speaking to the
new evolving political rhythms of
our existence, divorced of obscure references,
mythic Greek figures and greeting card
mush
- Mark Antony Rossi Quote / Quotation
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without
being at the same time a profound philosopher.
For poetry is the
blossom and the fragrance of all human
knowledge, human thoughts, human passions,
emotions, language
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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One demands two things of a poem. Firstly,
it must be a well-made verbal object
that does honor to the language
in whichit is written. Secondly, it
must say something significant about
a reality common to us all, but
perceived from a unique perspective.
What the poet says has never been said
before, but,
once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves
- W. H. Auden Quote / Quotation
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Poets are all who love, who feel great
truths, and tell them: and the truth
of truths is love
- Philip James Bailey Quote / Quotation
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A man would do well to carry a pencil
in his pocket and write down the thoughts
of the moment.
Those that come unsought are commonly
the most valuable and should be secured,
they seldom return
- Francis Bacon
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Poetry is just the evidence of life.
If your life is burning well, poetry
is just the ash
- Leonard Cohen Quote / Quotation
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains
which only poets know
- William Cowper
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Not every poem's good because it's ancient,
Nor mayst thou blame it just because
it's new,
Fair critics test, and prove, and so
pass judgment; Fools praise or blame
as they hear others do.
- Buddhist Quote / Quotation
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Poetry is language at its most distilled
and most powerful
- Rita Dove Quote / Quotation
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Genuine poetry can communicate before
it is understood
-T. S. Eliot
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by
reason
- Novalis Quote / Quotation
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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
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned
- Paul Valery
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence,
who escapes from his celestial realm
arrives in this world warbling.
If we do not cherish him, he spreads
his wings and flies back into his homeland
- Kahlil Gibran Quote / Quotation
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling
that the poet believes to be interior
and personal
which the reader recognizes as his own
- Salvatore Quasimodo
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To have great poets, there must be great
audiences
- Walt Whitman Quote / Quotation
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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 begins in delight and ends in
wisdom
- Robert Frost Quote / Quotation
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You will find poetry nowhere unless
you bring some of it with you
- Joseph Joubert
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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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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths
and biscuits
- Carl Sandburg Quote / Quotation
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to
dance
- Carl Sandburg
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There's no money in poetry, but then
there's no poetry in money, either
- Robert Graves Quote / Quotation
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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and
words that burn
- Thomas Gray
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To have great poets, there must be great
audiences
- Walt Whitman Quote / Quotation
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession
- 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 Quote / Quotation
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The poets have been mysteriously silent
on the subject of cheese
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure
with truth
- Samuel Johnson
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Publishing a volume of verse is like
dropping a rose petal down the Grand
Canyon and waiting for the echo
- Don Marquis Quote / Quotation
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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
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words
from the steadfast possession of definition
- Eli Khamarov Quote / Quotation
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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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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 Quote / Quotation
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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
- Salman Rushdie
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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
- E. B. White Quote / Quotation
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A poet is an unhappy being whose heart
is torn by secret sufferings, but whose
lips are so strangely
formed thatwhen the sighs and the cries
escape them, they sound like beautiful
music...
and then people crowd about thepoet
and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;"
that is asmuch as to say, "May new sufferings
torment your soul"
- Soren Kierkegaard
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A poet can survive everything but a
misprint
- Oscar Wilde
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You can tear a poem apart to see what
makes it tick... You're back with the
mystery of having been moved
by words. The best craftsmanship always
leaves holes and gaps... so that something
that is not in the
poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder
in
- Dylan Thomas Quote / Quotation
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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
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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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