Best poetry & poetry-by-poets Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Selected Letters

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

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“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

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Book:Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

Source: Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

“I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”

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Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”

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Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

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Author:Dennis Gabor

“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”

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Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“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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Author:Paul Engle

“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

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Author:Wallace Stevens

“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.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.”

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Author:Paul Engle

“But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“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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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

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