Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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Poetry should.. Should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong. They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
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It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. It's like a kind of poetry.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days but not without poetry.
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
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I would especially like to re court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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When power leads man toward 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 his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows is essentially poetry.
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
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