poetry quote 30

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

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poetry quote 29

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove

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poetry quote 28

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Robert Penn Warren

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poetry quote 27

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt

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poetry quote 26

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz

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poetry quote 25

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

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poetry quote 24

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

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poetry quote 23

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau

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poetry quote 22

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray

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poetry quote 21

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

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poetry quote 20

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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poetry quote 19

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser

poetry quote 18

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Avril

Avril
C'est magnifique
Springtime weather
Is so sweet

Poetry
A small part of me
I sometimes share it
Here with thee

One month a year
We recognize
The art that brings
Tears to our eyes

Its Poetry month
So spread the word
Let the worlds greatest
philosophers once again be heard

4.18.12

poetry quote 17

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

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poetry quote 16

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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poetry quote 15

Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire

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poetry quote 14

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine

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National poetry month is here again

National poetry month is here again 
Make a rhyme for all your friends
Bring the rhythm of the nation into light
Share your thoughts with us tonight

4.14.12

poetry quote 13

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
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poetry quote 12

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves

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poetry quote 11

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

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A haiku for you

A haiku for you
In celebration of a
New poetry month

May the gods of verse
Fill all your creative minds
With inspiration.

poetry quote 10

A 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.
Salman Rushdie

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poetry quote 9

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot

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poetry quote 8

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

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poetry quote 7

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Poetry Quote 6

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

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poetry quote 5

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

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Poetry Quote 4

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry Quote 3

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

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Poetry Quote 2

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
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Poetry Quote 1

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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