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The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley
I think poetry is best read to oneself. — Rickie Lee Jones
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? — Wystan Hugh Auden
I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream. — John Ashbery
Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup. — Jennifer Grotz
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. — Jean Cocteau
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. — Jeremy Bentham
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s… — Huston Smith
Poetry is a break for freedom. — David Whyte
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes. — John Dryden
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for… — Walt Whitman
Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable.… — Pablo Neruda
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and… — Gilbert Highet
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. — John Steinbeck
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks… — Ezra Pound
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family.… — Anne Stevenson
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what… — Walter Pater
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal,… — Pietro Aretino
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality… — John Drinkwater

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