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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. — Robert Penn Warren
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely… — Patricia K Page
Poetry is the most bodily of the arts. — Robert Pinsky
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth.… — Robert Pinsky
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started.… — Billy Collins
Poetry is what makes the invisible appear. — Nathalie Sarraute
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age. — Babette Deutsch
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a… — Christian Wiman
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity… — Christian Wiman
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it… — Subramanya Bharathi
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little… — Edward Dowden
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of… — Aileen Fisher
Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language, — Laurence Overmire
Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities. — Samuel Palmer
Poetry is a necessity of life, — C.D. Wright
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale… — Edward Hirsch
Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut. — Linda Pastan
Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope. — Susan Griffin
Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor. — Marie Ponsot
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people. — Michael Longley
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved. — Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more.… — Tracy K. Smith

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