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Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it. — Sonia Sanchez
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. — Wallace Stevens
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter. — Marvin Bell
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous… — Unknown Author
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing.… — Helen Vendler
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. — Gaston Bachelard
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. — Gaston Bachelard
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place… — Robert Bly
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are… — Stanley Kunitz
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden.… — Jean Renoir
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. — Muriel Rukeyser
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an… — Paul Dirac
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything… — Wilfred Owen
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is… — Henry Purcell
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. — Brooks Atkinson
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. — Eugenio Montale
Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter. — Robert Hass
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. — John Masefield
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced… — A. R. Ammons
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free… — A. R. Ammons

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