#poetry

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. ↗

— Alfred Edward Housman

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. ↗

— John Colville

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. ↗

— Robert Graves

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. ↗

— John Keats

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