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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

— Jack Kerouac

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

— Paul Valery

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

— Theophile Gautier

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

— Matthew Arnold

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what…

— Wes Nisker

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once…

— Anonymous

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

— John Cage

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato