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“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

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Author:John Fowles

“Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.”

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Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

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Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“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

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

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Book:The Prose of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Prose of Oscar Wilde

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”

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Book:Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

Source: Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

“It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.”

“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

“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”

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Book:The route as briefed

Source: The route as briefed

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

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Author:Paul Engle

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”

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Author:Rita Dove

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”