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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
Auden, W. H.

2.
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
Brodsky, Joseph

3.
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
Nisker, Wes ''Scoop''

4.
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Byron, Lord

5.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles

6.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Marquis, Don

7.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire

8.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Bodenheim, Maxwell

9.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Hare, David

10.
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert

11.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

12.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Temple, Sir William

13.
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Plath, Sylvia

14.
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

15.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Stevens, Wallace

16.
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.
Ginsberg, Allen

17.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Sandburg, Carl

18.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Frost, Robert

19.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

21.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Sandburg, Carl

22.
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Auden, W. H.

23.
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Thoreau, Henry David

24.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Stedman, Captain J. G.

25.
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
Eco, Umberto

26.
Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.
Frye, Northrop

27.
Poetry is life distilled.
Brooks, Gwendolyn

28.
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Kennedy, John F.

29.
Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

30.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Engle, Paul

31.
We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
Eliot, T. S.

32.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Sandburg, Carl

33.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.

34.
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
Dworkin, Andrea

35.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Farquhar, George

36.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Woolf, Virginia

37.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That is a life.
Eliot, T. S.

39.
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Field, Eugene

40.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Horace

41.
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
Dylan, Bob

42.
Every old poem is sacred.
Horace

43.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Joyce, James

44.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Flaubert, Gustave

45.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

46.
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Hazlitt, William

47.
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.
Baudelaire, Charles

48.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Ashbery, John

49.
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.
Auden, W. H.

50.
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
White, Elwyn Brooks


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