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“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”

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“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”

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Author:Paul Valery

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

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Book:The Prose of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Prose of Oscar Wilde

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

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Book:Reviews

Source: Reviews

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

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Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

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Book:On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts

Source: On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts

“Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”

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Book:Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader

Source: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader

“Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

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

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Author:Robert Frost

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”

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Author:Sharon Olds

“The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”

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Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize”

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Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”

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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

“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”

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Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“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

“Writing poetry is a state of free float.”

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Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“I write poetry in order to live more fully.”

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Author:Judith Rodriguez

“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”

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Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”

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Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.”

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Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.”

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Author:Osbert Sitwell

“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”

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Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

“You can't write poetry on the computer.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.”

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Author:Robert Penn Warren

“I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.”

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Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”

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Author:James Fenton

“Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.”

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Author:e. e. cummings

“Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.”

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Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.”

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Author:Derek Walcott

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.”

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Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.”

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Author:Matsuo Basho

“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A picture is a poem without words”

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Author:Horace

“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

“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.”

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Author:Robert Frost

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

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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

“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”

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Author:John Milton

“You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.”

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Author:Callimachus

“Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.”

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Author:Marilyn Hacker

“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”

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Author:Robert Hass

“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.”

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Book:The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers

Source: The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers

“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

“People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.”

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Author:Li-Young Lee

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

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