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Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing… — James Dickey
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future,… — Theodore Sturgeon
Poetry is a sort of homecoming. — Paul Celan
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are. — Philip Larkin
I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits… — John Ashbery
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country.… — Richard Eberhart
The secret of poetry is cruelty. — Jon Anderson
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is… — Unknown Author
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets… — Van Morrison
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells… — Khalil Gibran
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no… — John Fowles
Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe. — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality. — Mark Twain
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. — Aristotle
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long… — Gabriela Mistral
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. — Eavan Boland
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… — Huston Smith
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's… — Kenneth Koch
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among… — June Jordan
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what… — June Jordan
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. — Amiri Baraka

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