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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Flowers
Jean Giraudoux

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Arts and Artists
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Superstition is the poetry of life.
Superstition
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Graves

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare

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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Poetry and Poets
William Hazlitt

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry and Poets
Joseph Joubert

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Sentiment
Alphonse De Lamartine

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Poetry and Poets
Thomas B. Macaulay

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Poetry and Poets
Don Marquis

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Language
Marianne Moore

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Poetry and Poets
Sylvia Plath

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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry and Poets
Plato

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Poetry and Poets
Edgar Allan Poe

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Poetry and Poets
Frederick W. Robertson

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Poetry and Poets
Joseph Roux

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Science and Scientists
Joseph Roux

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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Poetry and Poets
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
Painters and Painting
Simonides

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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Poetry and Poets
Captain J. G. Stedman

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun