There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William Hazlitt
A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. – Thomas Hardy
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
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
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
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. – Christopher Fry
Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. – William Blissett
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. – Carl Sandburg
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
Always be a poet, even in prose. – Charles Baudelaire
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Shelley
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. – T.S. Eliot
You can’t write poetry on the computer. – Quentin Tarantino
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato
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