We learn what poetry is – if we ever learn – by reading it. – T.S. Eliot
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato
It’s easier to quote poets than to read them. – Allison Barrows
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. – Christopher Fry
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
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. – Robert Frost
Poetry is reverie on paper. – Terri Guillemets
The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau
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