| Andre Gide | "Therefore" is a word the poet must not...
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| A. E. Housman | Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually...
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| Charles Baudelaire | Always be a poet, even in...
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| Dennis Gabor | Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music...
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| Don Marquis | Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a...
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| E. M. Forster | A poem is true if it hangs together. Information...
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| The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject...
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| Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly...
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| No poems can please for long or live that...
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| A true poet does not bother to be poetical....
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| Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the...
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| The poet doesn't invent. He...
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| The poet is a liar who always speaks the...
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| There is poetry as soon as we realize that...
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| You don't have to suffer to be a poet;...
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| Joseph Joubert | You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some...
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| Kahlil Gibran | A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who...
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| Kahlil Gibran | Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and...
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| Leonard Cohen | Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your...
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| Paul Engle | Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power....
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| Rene Char | A poet must leave traces of his passage, not...
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| Rita Dove | Poetry is language at its most distilled and most...
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| Robert Browning | God is the perfect...
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| Robert Frost | A poem begins as a lump in the throat,...
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| Robert Frost | A poem begins in delight and ends in...
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| Robert Frost | Poetry is what gets lost in...
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| Robert Frost | Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought...
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| Robert Frost | To be a poet is a condition, not a...
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| Robert Graves | There's no money in poetry, but then there's no...
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| Russell Baker | I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years...
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| Samuel Johnson | Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with...
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| Thomas B. Macaulay | Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can...
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| Thomas Gray | Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that...
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| Thomas Hardy | If Galileo had said in verse that the world...
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| T. S. Eliot | Genuine poetry can communicate before it is...
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| T. S. Eliot | Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but...
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| William Hazlitt | Poetry is all that is worth remembering in...
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| W. H. Auden | A poet is, before anything else, a person who...
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