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Why should poetry have to make sense?
Charlie Chaplin
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
George Will
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Henry Ellis
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
Lord Byron
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