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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Eternal Portraits

Just like a camera
Frozen in time
Not captured on film
Just descriptive rhyme

Poetry captures history
And signs of the times
In pictures that don't fade
In picturesque rhymes