#poetry

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. He doesn’t eat much and doesn’t read much, but listens well and is a most gracious host. ↗

— Terri Guillemets

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes... ↗

— George Gordon Byron

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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. ↗

— Janine Turner

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ↗

— Robert Graves

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