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Poetry lies its way to the truth.
John Ciardi
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John Dryden
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Jacques Derrida
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Comte de Lautreamont
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
Anna Quindlen
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Hu Shih
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
Robert Creeley
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Martin C. Smith
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Joseph Brodsky
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
Archibald MacLeish
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
Archibald MacLeish
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