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~ 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 ~

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Wallace Stevens

~ Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved ~

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Edmund Burke

~ All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears ~

Alfred Douglas

~ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility ~

William Wordsworth

~ Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking ~

John Wain

~ Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ~

Charles Simic

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