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No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet… — Henry David Thoreau
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form… — Judith Wright
Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity. — William Wordsworth
Poetry is devil's wine. — Saint Augustine
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. — Paul Engle
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When… — Patti Smith
The essence of poetry is will and passion. — William Hazlitt
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry… — Ezra Pound
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S.… — Marcus Mumford
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. — David Hare
Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell — Kenneth Slessor
The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact,… — Kenneth Goldsmith
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it? — Reginald Shepherd
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of… — Unknown Author
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Robin Williams
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. — Robin Williams
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. — Patti Smith
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war. — Unknown Author
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more… — Etel Adnan
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. — John Drinkwater
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. — Aristotle
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. — Wilfred Owen

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