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\nEnjoy this collection of quotes on Poetry.
\n\u201cPoetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.\u201d – Christopher Fry
\n\u201cPoetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.\u201d – Carl Sandburg
\n\u201cPoetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.\u201d – Samuel Johnson
\n\u201cPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.\u201d – Plato
\n\u201cWhen power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.\u201d – John F. Kennedy
\n\u201cThe distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse… the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.\u201d – Aristotle
\n\u201cPoetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.\u201d – Aristotle
\n\u201cPoetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.\u201d – Augustus William Hare
\n\u201cReality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.\u201d – Georges Brague
\n\u201cThe sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.\u201d – Muriel Rukeyser
\n\u201cPoetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.\u201d – James Branch Cabell
\n\u201cI don’t create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.\u201d – Edith S\u00f6dergran
\n\u201cPoetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.\u201d – Salvatore Quasimodo
\n\u201cPoetry is the art of substantiating shadows.\u201d – Edmund Burke
\n\u201cPoetry is life distilled.\u201d – Gwendolyn Brooks
\n\u201cPoetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.\u201d – Thomas Gray
\n\u201cPoetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.\u201d – Robert Frost
\n\u201cPoetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.\u201d – Robinson Jeffers
\n\u201cA poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.\u201d – Wallace Stevens
\n\u201cPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.\u201d – Novalis
\n\u201cIf I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.\u201d – Emily Dickinson
\n\u201cPoetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.\u201d – Khalil Gibran
\n\u201cIf my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.\u201d – Jim Morrison
\n\u201cA 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.\u201d – Salman Rushdie
\n\u201cI decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.\u201d – Socrates
\n\u201cThe poet is the priest of the invisible.\u201d \u2014 Wallace Stevens
\n\u201cPoetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.\u201d – Percy Shelley
\n\u201cPoetry is an act of peace.\u201d \u2013 Pablo Neruda
\n\u201cPoetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.\u201d \u2013 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
\n\u201cThere is often as much poetry between the lines of a poem as in those lines.\u201d – Alexandre Vinet
\n\u201cIt is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.\u201d – Stephen Mallarme
\n\u201cThe poet doesn’t invent. He listens.\u201d – Jean Cocteau
\n\u201cIf you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going to be average.\u201d – Derek Walcott
\n\u201cPoetry is what gets lost in translation.\u201d – Robert Frost
\n\u201cI\u2019ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.\u201d – Carl Sandburg
\n\u201cA poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.\u201d – Randall Jarrell
\n\u201cThe poet illuminates us by the flames in which his being passes away.\u201d – Alexandre Vinet
\n\u201cPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.\u201d – Leonard Cohen
\n\u201cThe poem… is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see \u2014 it is, rather, a light by which we may see \u2014 and what we see is life.\u201d – Robert Penn Warren
\n\u201cTo be a poet is a condition, not a profession.\u201d – Robert Frost
\n\u201cIn poetry and in eloquence the beautiful and grand must spring from the commonplace…. All that remains for us is to be new while repeating the old, and to be ourselves in becoming the echo of the whole world.\u201d – Alexandre Vinet
\n\u201cThe poetry of the earth is never dead.\u201d – John Keats
\n\u201cPoetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.\u201d – James Tate
\n\u201cI write poetry in order to live more fully.\u201d – Judith Rodriguez
\n\u201cIf you’ve got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.\u201d – Terri Guillemets
\n\u201cAlways be a poet, even in prose.\u201d – Charles Baudelaire
\n\u201cIf you can\u2019t be a poet, be the poem.\u201d \u2013 David Carradine
\n\u201cEvery single soul is a poem.\u201d – Michael Franti
\n\u201cBreathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.\u201d – Muriel Rukeyser
\n\u201cI am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don’t have to write anymore.\u201d – Tukaram
\n\u201cGod is the perfect poet.\u201d – Robert Browning
\n\u201cA poem is never finished, only abandoned.\u201d – Paul Val\u00e9ry
\n\u201cPoetry is not always words.\u201d – Terri Guillemets
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