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~ There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Poetry should only occupy the idle. ~

Lord Byron

~ It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. ~

Voltaire

~ To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -True Poems flee. ~

Emily Dickinson

~ Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. ~

Ajay Naidu

~ The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. ~

Robert Aris Willmott

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

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

Edmund Burke

~ The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~

French Proverb

~ The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~

French Proverb

~ The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. ~

Robert Graves

~ Poetry is devil's wine. ~

St. Augustine

~ There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast. ~

Jean de la Bruyere

~ The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. ~

James F. Cooper

~ Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. ~

Robert Lynd

~ Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. ~

David Foster Wallace

~ None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ~

Edith Hamilton

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