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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

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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

Poetry is as exact a science as geometry

Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.

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

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

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

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

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions

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

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

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

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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

Voltaire

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