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~ It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~

Brooks Atkinson

~ If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? ~

Joyce Carol Oates

~ Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ~

T S Eliot

~ Advertising is the poetry of Capitalism ~

Michael Maynard

~ Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~

Dennis Gabor

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

Edgar Allan Poe

~ 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. ~

Paul Engle

~ 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. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ~

T.S. Eliot

~ Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ~

Robert Frost

~ Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~

Thomas Gray

~ Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~

Thomas Gray

~ Poetry is life distilled. ~

Gwendolyn Brooks

~ Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~

Carl Sandburg

~ Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~

Carl Sandburg

~ You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~

Joseph Joubert

~ Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~

Leonard Cohen

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

Robert Frost

~ Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny ~

Mikhail Dudan

~ Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~

Thomas Gray

~ Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting ~

William Wordsworth

~ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain ~

John Adams

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

Mario Matthew Cuomo

~ What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~

Arnold Palmer

~ Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ~

Curtis, George William

~ Romance is the poetry of literature. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers ~

Lewis Thomas

~ Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song. ~

Osho

~ The crown of literature is poetry. ~

William Somerset Maugham

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