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

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Animal, Air

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Giving, Poetry

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• Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Writing, Sunday, Clothes

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• The poet is the priest of the invisible.

  Wallace Stevens

  Poetry, Invisible, Priests

  Opus Posthumous (1957) "Adagia"

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• Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

  David Hare

  Nature, Keys, Poetry

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• Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

  Paul Celan

  Inspirational, Homecoming

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• Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

  Philip Larkin

  Sanity, Affair, Seeing

  "Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, 1984.

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• The secret of poetry is cruelty.

  Jon Anderson

  Secret, Cruelty

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• Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

  William Hughes Mearns

  Poetry

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• Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

  Isaac Barrow

  Anecdotes, Kind, Nonsense

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• Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

  Robert Gilfillan

  Dwelling, Poetry

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• Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Poetry, Soul

  Thomas Budd Shaw, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1853). “Outlines of English Literature”, p.468

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• Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

  Dylan Thomas

  Poetry, Toenails

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Poetry, Ashes

  "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that'" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.

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• Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Feet, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

  Stephen Spender

  Poetry, Great Poet, Can Do

  The New York Times, March 26, 1961.

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• Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

  James Tate

  Editing, Reading Poetry, Needs

  James Tate (1999). “The route as briefed”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Food, Sarcasm

  "Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  T. S. Eliot

  Communication, Writing, Poetry

  1929 Dante.

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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.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Time, Lying, Party

  Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

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• Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

  Denis Diderot

  Poetry, Barbaric

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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

  Christopher Morley

  Courage, Art, Doors

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley”

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• He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Death, Song

  "Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)

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• The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Meaningful, Men, Poetry

  1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.

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• Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Inspirational, Believe, Poetry

  Speech in New York, 13 May 1960, in New York Times 14 May 1960, p. 47

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