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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.
American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.
Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.
Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.
What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.
I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.