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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Pitching, Tough

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• Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Literature, May, Imperfect

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853.

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• We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

  Helen Hayes

  Wisdom, Acceptance, Rely Upon

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• Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Home, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Money, Writing

  Dyer's Hand (1963) foreword

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• God is the perfect poet.

  Robert Browning

  Godly, Perfect, Poetic

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 2, l. 648

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• You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

  Joseph Joubert

  Poetic, Great Poetry

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• A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Men, Looks

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• A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

  E. B. White

  Doe, Veils, Dare

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.164, Cornell University Press

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

  Dennis Gabor

  Heart, Poetic, Great Poet

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

  David Carradine

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

  Charles Simic

  Silence, Never Quit, Quiet

  Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”

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• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

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• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Uniting, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Lives of the Most Eminent Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.120

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• With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Purpose, Literature

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.715, Wordsworth Editions

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• No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

  Horace

  Food, Water, Long

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• There comes a point in your life when you realize:
  Who matters,
  Who never did,
  Who won't anymore,
  And who always will.
  So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Life, Letting Go, Future

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• You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Children

  1962 In the Saturday Review, Fall issue.

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Taken, Writing, Feels

  Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

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• That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

  Horace

  Giving, Pleasure, Because Of You

  'Odes' bk. 4, no. 3, l. 24

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• Poetry is life distilled.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Life, Poetry Is

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1980). “Young Poet's Primer”

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• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

  Paul Engle

  Reading Poetry, Language And Power, Ordinary

  New York Times, February 17, 1957.

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• If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

  Thomas Hardy

  World, Might, Said

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.200, Penguin

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• Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Indispensable, Ifs

  "The Necessity of Art". Book by Ernst Fischer, 1959.

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