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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
Author: Allen Tate
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A poem should not mean But be.
Author: Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica, 1926
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Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. He doesn’t eat much and doesn’t read much, but listens well and is a most gracious host.
Author: Astrid Alauda
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If Painting be Poetry’s sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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Come voyeur my poems Feel free, I feel free.
Author: Carrie Latet
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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Author: Christopher Fry
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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
Author: Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe
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You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick…. You’re back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps… so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
Author: Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto, 1961
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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.
Author: E.B. White
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
Author: E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
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The word ‘Verse’ is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification… the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Author: G.K. Chesterton
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Poetry is frosted fire.
Author: J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com
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Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
Author: J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com
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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.
Author: J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com
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Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.
Author: J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com
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