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~ Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions ~

John Ruskin

~ Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. ~

Stephen Spender

~ Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ~

Thomas Hardy

~ Language is fossil poetry ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Language is fossil poetry ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mark Twain

~ Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence ~

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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

T.S. Eliot

~ Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things ~

Matthew Arnold

~ In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all ~

Wallace Stevens

~ Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved ~

Jose Ortega y Gasset

~ Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment ~

Carl Sandburg

~ Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing ~

Edmund Burke

~ All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears ~

Alfred Douglas

~ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility ~

William Wordsworth

~ Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking ~

John Wain

~ Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ~

Charles Simic

~ Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. ~

Voltaire

~ A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart ~

Peggy Noonan

~ There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. ~

Hamlin Garland

~ The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul ~

Thomas Moore

~ Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved ~

Jose Ortega y Gasset

~ Romance is the poetry of literature. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress ~

Lord Byron

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Poetry is the deification of reality. ~

Dame Edith Sitwell

~ The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy ~

Louis Ferdinand Celine

~ Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ~

Thomas Mann

~ Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~

Christopher Paul Rubero

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