“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
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“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
Source: Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
“Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.”
“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Source: The Common Reader
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.”
“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
“Poetry is the scholar's art.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.”
“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.”
“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
Source: Poems