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~ Love is the poetry of the senses. ~

~ If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry ~

Rachel Carson

~ Beauty created by Nature is equal in value to, and to be accorded reverence equal to that of the beauty of music, art or poetry of man, and experts are available to testify as to degrees of natural beauty just as they are able to testify to the quality of mortalsí art. ~

David Sive

~ Wine is poetry in a bottle. ~

Clifton Fadiman

~ The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry ~

Louis Pasteur

~ Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. ~

Robert Morgan

~ I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ~

Anne Stevenson

~ The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. ~

Allen Ginsberg

~ The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. ~

Allen Ginsberg

~ If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ~

Wallace Stevens

~ 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

~ People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ~

Lucille Clifton

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

~ The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author?s explanations, it never should have been published. ~

Archibald MacLeish

~ Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. ~

Robert Morgan

~ The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality ~

Mark Twain

~ In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. ~

Larry Summers

~ 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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. ~

Emily Dickinson

~ All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~

Edgar Allan Poe

~ Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. ~

Anthony Hecht

~ 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

~ All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man ~

Bernard Berenson

~ Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ~

Allen Tate

~ We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. ~

William Butler Yeats

~ Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ~

John Drinkwater

~ Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ 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

~ Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. ~

John Keats

~ Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life. ~

Sir William Osler

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