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Poetry Is Quotes by Carl Sandburg
- Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
- Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
- Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
- Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
- I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
- Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
- Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
- Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot…
- Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
- Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
More Poetry Is Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
- Poetry is life distilled. — Gwendolyn Brooks
- Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
- Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. — James Branch Cabell
- Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
- I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a… — Leonard Cohen
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie
- The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is… — A. R. Ammons