A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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– ROBERT FROST

PROSE…words in their best order. POETRY…the best words in the best order. –

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. –

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SAMUEL JOHNSON �

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. –

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CARL SANDBURG

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Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life. –

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MATTHEW ARNOLD

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. –

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LEONARD COHEN

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. --

PAUL ENGLE

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. –

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VLADIMIR NABOKOV

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

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– ROBERT BROWNING

Always be a poet, even in prose.

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--CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. –

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ROBERT FROST

If…it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry.

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– EMILY DICKINSON

The poet is liar who always speaks the truth.

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– JEAN COCTEAU

A poem should not mean, but be.

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– ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds. –

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Poetry is a marriage of craft and imagination.

--CHRISTINE E. HEMP

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. –

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W.B. YEATS

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Poetry is imaginary gardens with real toads in them. --

MARIANNE MOORE

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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. –

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AUGUSTUS AND JULIUS HARE

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. –

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STÉPHEN MALLARMÉ

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. –

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JOSEPH JOUBERT

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. –

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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