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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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Jules Renard
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A good poet's made as well as born.
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Ben Johnson
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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
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Eugene Field
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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Elbert Hubbard
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Robert Frost
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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Paul Valery
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A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
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Oscar Wilde
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
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Max Eastman
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A poet is born not made.
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Saying
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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Gustave Flaubert
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
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Charles Baudelaire
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Every old poem is sacred.
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Horace
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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
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Aristotle
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
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Zona Gale
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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
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Carl Sandburg
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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Robert Frost
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
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John Barrymore
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
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Emily Dickinson
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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
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Robert Graves
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Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
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Philip Massinger
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Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
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Stephan Kanfer
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
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Voltaire
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
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Sir William Temple
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
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Horace
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18 votes
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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Horace
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19 votes
Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
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C. Fitzhugh
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16 votes
Only poetry inspires poetry.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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22 votes
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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Plato
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Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.
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Source Unknown
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
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George Farquhar
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Robert Frost
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Captain J. G. Stedman
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18 votes
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
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Robert Fitzgerald
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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
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Jean Cocteau
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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Joseph Roux
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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
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Maxwell Bodenheim
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
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Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
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David Hare
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Poetry is what is lost in translation.
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Robert Frost
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Don Marquis
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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
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W. H. Auden
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