Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. – William Blissett
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. – Novalis
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg
I have always said that in print, a poem needs space to breathe – Gulzar
Poetry … is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. – T.S. Eliot
Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis
Always be a poet, even in prose. – Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Shelley
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
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E. B. White
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil Gibran
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. – T.S. Eliot
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert
Poetry slips a silk dress over naked prose. – James Lendall Basford
You can’t write poetry on the computer. – Quentin Tarantino
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. – Maxwell Bodenheim
Well, write poetry, for Gods sake, its the only thing that matters. – E.E. Cummings
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