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“Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.” - Theodore Roethke
“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.” - Carl Sandburg
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.” - Edgar Allan Poe
“One merit of poetry few persons will deny — it says more and in fewer words than prose.” - Voltaire
“The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.” - Jean Cocteau
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“Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.” - John Barton
“...have good sentences in your ears.” - Jane Kenyon
“Poems are never finished - just abandoned.” - Paul Valéry
“The moment of change is the only poem.” - Adrienne Rich
“Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are.” - Ted Hughes
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“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.” - Robert Frost
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” - Thomas Gray
“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable.” - Salman Rushdie
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” - Plato
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” - Leonard Cohen
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“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.” - John Fowles
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” - David Carradine
“‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.” - Andre Gide
“Deep feeling doesn’t make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.” - Thom Gunn
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“Writing poetry is weightlifting for writers. It builds artistic muscle.” - Antonia Felix
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” - Leonard Cohen
“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.” - Robert Penn Warren
“Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.” - Jorge Luis Borges
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” - Khalil Gibran
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“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering–these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love–these are what we stay alive for.” - John Keating
“Poems are never finished - just abandoned.” - Paul Valéry
“Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.” - Ray Bradbury
“Poems are small moments of enlightenment.” - Natalie Goldberg
“A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.” - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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“All a poet can do is warn.” - Wilfred Owen
“I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.” - Minnie Bruce Pratt
“And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings a local habitation and a name.” - William Shakespeare
“Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
“You can’t write poetry on the computer.” -Quentin Tarantino
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“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” – Steven Wright
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost
“Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs – no regular hours, so many temptations!” – Elizabeth Bishop
“Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.” – Carolyn Kizer
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” – Oscar Wilde
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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” – Oscar Wilde
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” – Khalil Gibran
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” – Robert Frost
“A poet gives life to his thoughts and feelings and with inspiration, breathes life into his work for it to live forever but to fly, they need wings, and only in the magical world called music can they have wings.” – Hovhannes Tumanian
“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: It says more and in fewer words than prose.” – Voltaire
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