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76 quotes (Page 3 of 4 pages)Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Denis Diderot
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Poetry should only occupy the idle.
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Lord Byron
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Alphonse De Lamartine
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Poets are born, not paid.
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Addison Mizner
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
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Horace
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
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Sylvia Plath
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The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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Christopher Morley
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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William Hazlitt
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
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James Russell Lowell
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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
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Horace
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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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Frederick W. Robertson
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
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Virginia Woolf
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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Wallace Stevens
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Dame Edith Sitwell
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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David Hare
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This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
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Voltaire
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
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Voltaire
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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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John Fowles
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Robert Frost
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun