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

~ Poetry: the best words in the best order. ~

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

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

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

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

~ Language is fossil poetry ~

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

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

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

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

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

~ Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved ~

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

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

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