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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg
When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home. — Dorothea Lasky
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion, — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart. — R. S. Thomas
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language — Peter Porter
All poetry is experimental poetry. — Wallace Stevens
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are… — Audre Lorde
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old,… — Goldwin Smith
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into… — John Drinkwater
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. — Russell Baker
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow. — Robert Browning
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of… — Anne Stevenson
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world — Wallace Stevens
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill… — Alec Soth
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan
Poetry is the dark side of the moon, — Charles Wright
Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody — Nikki Giovanni
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to… — Antonin Artaud
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and… — Keith Miller
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. — Phyllis McGinley
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are… — Wilfred Owen
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the… — C. K. Williams

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