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Poetry Quotes


Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

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.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

The 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-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.