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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical."
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
"Poetry is an act of peace."
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"Poetry is the song of the soul, and the song of the world."
"Poetry is an invisible embrace."
"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power."
"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion."
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world."
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls."
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
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"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
"Poetry is the basis of civil society. If law, morality, and religion are the checks on the latent violence of individuals, then poetry is the check on the latent violence of language."
"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
"The poet is the priest of the invisible, the one who makes present what is not visibly there."
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
"Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow."
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music."
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."
"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
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"Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings."
"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone."
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep."
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment."
"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
"A poet is a musician who can't sing."
"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."
"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."
"The poet is the priest of the invisible."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
"Poetry is the deification of reality."
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it."
"Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations."
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
"Poetry is from the infinite reservoir of funniness."
"Poetry is what happens when emotions find their thought in words."
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?"
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and powerful."
"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."
"Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame."
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a little salt."
"Poetry is the universal language of the heart."
"Poetry is the shadow of dreams and the phantom of hope."
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."
"Poetry is no good unless it's subversive."
"Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the mirror of all art, the breviary of all good learning."
"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."
"Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action."
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