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~ Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~

T.S. Eliot

~ Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~

T.S. Eliot

~ Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~

John Dryden

~ Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~

Edgar Allan Poe

~ If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ~

Emily Dickinson

~ Blogging is the new poetry ~

Unknown

~ Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ~

Rita Dove

~ Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ~

Rita Dove

~ Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. ~

Thomas Hill

~ Wine is bottled poetry. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe. ~

Ruth Bernhard

~ You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ~

Mario Matthew Cuomo

~ Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree. ~

Astrid Alauda

~ The crown of literature is poetry. ~

William Somerset Maugham

~ The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~

Jean Giraudoux

~ The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life. ~

Barry Lopez

~ A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ~

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

~ True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. ~

Gaston Bachelard

~ 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

~ The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality ~

Muriel Rukeyser

~ Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry ~

Georges Braque

~ Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere ~

James Martineau

~ Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~

John Wain

~ Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. ~

Robert Frost

~ Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ~

Beverley Nichols

~ The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ~

Louis Kronenberger

~ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ~

John Andrew Holmes

~ History is still in large measure poetry to me. ~

Jakob Burckhardt

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