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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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A poet is born not made.
Poetry and Poets
Saying

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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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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Poetry and Poets
Dame Edith Sitwell

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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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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Complexity
Wallace Stevens

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Wallace Stevens

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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Poetry and Poets
Wallace Stevens

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Wine is bottled poetry.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Robert Louis Stevenson

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None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
Creation
Torquato Tasso

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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Poetry and Poets
Sir William Temple

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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Poetry and Poets
Henry David Thoreau

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Love is the poetry of the senses.
Love
Source Unknown

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Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.
Poetry and Poets
Source Unknown

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Poetry and Poets
Voltaire

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A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Movies
Orson Welles

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Audiences
Walt Whitman

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A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
Poetry and Poets
Oscar Wilde

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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde

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Poetry is the language of feeling.
Language
W. Winter

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friends and Friendship
Virginia Woolf

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Poetry and Poets
Virginia Woolf

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