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title: "4 Poem Thought Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-karr/people-who-didn-t-live-pre-internet-can-t-grasp-how-devoid-of-ideas/)

[Mary Karr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-karr/)

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> [A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hensel/a-poem-is-but-a-thought-a-mere-memory-caught-at-play-from-hand-onto/)

[Robert M. Hensel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-hensel/)

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> [“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-not-metres-but-a-metre-making-argument-that-makes-a-poem-a/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a64/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_it-is-not-metres-but-a-metre-making-argu_2143594.jpg)

> [To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ciardi/to-read-a-poem-with-no-thought-in-mind-but-to-paraphrase-it-into-a/)

[John Ciardi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ciardi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10d/john-ciardi-10262_destruction_to-read-a-poem-with-no-thought-in-mind-b_2779148.png)

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