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~ Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ~

Samuel Johnson

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

Edgar Allan Poe

~ If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ~

Emily Dickinson

~ Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ~

Rita Dove

~ Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. ~

Thomas Hill

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

Dennis Gabor

~ 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 life distilled. ~

Gwendolyn Brooks

~ 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

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