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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
Source: The Lives of the Most Eminent Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”
“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.”
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”
Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”
“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”
“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“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.”
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
“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Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings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
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”