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A. E. Housman	Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually ha...
Alfred de Musset	Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or t...
Carl Sandburg	I've written some poetry I don't understand myse...
Carl Sandburg	Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes....
Carl Sandburg	Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance....
Carl Sandburg	Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living o...
Carl Sandburg	Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, lea...
Carl Sandburg	Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuit...
Charles Baudelaire	Always be a poet, even in prose....
Charles Simic	Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never ...
Charles Simic	Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem i...
Dennis Gabor	Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and maki...
Don Marquis	Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a ...
Dylan Thomas	You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it t...
E. B. White	A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... ...
Edgar Allan Poe	Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in w...
Edward M. Forster	A poem is true if it hangs together. Information...
Eli Khamarov	Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the ...
George Sand	He who draws noble delights from sentiments of p...
Gilbert K. Chesterton	The poets have been mysteriously silent on the s...
Gustave Flaubert	Everything one invents is true, you may be perfe...
Horace	No poems can please for long or live that are wr...
Jean Cocteau	A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor ...
Jean Cocteau	Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which...
Jean Cocteau	The poet doesn't invent. He listens....
Jean Cocteau	The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth....
John Cage	There is poetry as soon as we realize that we po...
John Ciardi	You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescen...
John Keats	Poetry should... should strike the reader as a w...
Joseph Joubert	You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring so...
Kahlil Gibran	A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who es...
Kahlil Gibran	Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, wit...
Leonard Cohen	Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your lif...
Lionel Trilling	The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us ...
Novalis	Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason....
Oscar Wilde	A poet can survive everything but a misprint....
Oscar Wilde	All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling....
Oscar Wilde	He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The ot...
Paul Engle	Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth po...
Paul Valery	A poem is never finished, only abandoned....
Percy Bysshe Shelley	Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that wh...
Percy Bysshe Shelley	Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the ...
Plato	Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history....
Rene Char	A poet must leave traces of his passage, not pro...
Richard Rosen	The poem is the point at which our strength gave...
Rita Dove	Poetry is language at its most distilled and mos...
Robert Browning	God is the perfect poet....
Robert Frost	A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom....
Robert Frost	Poetry is what gets lost in translation....
Robert Frost	Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought ...
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 ...
Robert Penn Warren	The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of m...
Robert Penn Warren	The poet is in the end probably more afraid of t...
Salman Rushdie	A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to poin...
Salvatore Quasimodo	Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the p...
Samuel McChord Crothers	A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and ...
T. S. Eliot	Genuine poetry can communicate before it is unde...
T. S. Eliot	Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an...
Thomas B. Macaulay	Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enj...
Thomas Gray	Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that ...
Thomas Hardy	If Galileo had said in verse that the world move...
Wallace Stevens	A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at...
William Hazlitt	Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life....
Yevgeny Yevtushenko	A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything e...