#poetry

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ↗

— George Sand

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

— Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is the deification of reality. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. ↗

— Huston Smith

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