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W. H. Auden quotes
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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Russell Baker quotes
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.
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Charles Baudelaire quotes
Always be a poet, even in prose.
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Robert Browning quotes
God is the perfect poet.
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John Cage quotes
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Rene Char quotes
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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John Ciardi quotes
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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Jean Cocteau quotes
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Jean Cocteau quotes
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Jean Cocteau quotes
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Jean Cocteau quotes
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Leonard Cohen quotes
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Samuel McChord Crothers quotes
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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Rita Dove quotes
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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T. S. Eliot quotes
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.
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T. S. Eliot quotes
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Paul Engle quotes
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.
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Gustave Flaubert quotes
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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E. M. Forster quotes
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Robert Frost quotes
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Robert Frost quotes
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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Robert Frost quotes
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Robert Frost quotes
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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Robert Frost quotes
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Dennis Gabor quotes
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
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Kahlil Gibran quotes
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Andre Gide quotes
"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
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Robert Graves quotes
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
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Thomas Gray quotes
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
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Thomas Hardy quotes
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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William Hazlitt quotes
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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