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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.
Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.
Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.
I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.
True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.
They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.