“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
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“Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.”
Source: The Early Days
“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”
Source: The route as briefed
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
Source: Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
Source: On Education
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”
Source: Always Astonished: Selected Prose
Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings
“The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.”
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“All that is gold does not glitter.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”