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I have argued in this book that we are human in good part because of the particular way we affiliate with other organisms. They are the matrix in which the human mind originated and is permanently rooted, and they offer the challenge and freedom innately sought. To the extent that each person can feel like a naturalist, the old excitement of the untrammeled world will be regained. I offer this as a formula of enchantment to invigorate poetry and myth: mysterious and little known organisms live within walking distance of where you sit. Splendor awaits in minute proportions.

Edward O. Wilson

You are walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine

Callimachus

There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard

Mark Twain

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Archibald MacLeish

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Edward Koch

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

Max Beerbohm

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Isaac Barrow

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Adrian Mitchell

Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.

Woody Allen

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.

Henry Steele Commager

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting

Edmund Burke

Poetry is as exact a science as geometry

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.

W. H. Auden

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well

Paul Valery

Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat

Thomas Fuller

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions

Joseph Roux

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls

James Russell Lowell

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns

Leo Stein

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

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