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Subject: !!~~~poetry quotes~~~!! 2008-08-04, 21:57

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

Poetry Quote by Robert Frost
Famous American Poet (1874-1963)

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"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

Poetry Quote by Robert Frost
Famous American Poet (1874-1963)

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"A poem should not mean but be."

Poetry Quote by Archibald MacLeish
American Poet (1892-1982)

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"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."

Peotry Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet (1803-1882)

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"Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science."

Poetry Qoute by Sigmund Freud

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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Poetry Quote by Sigmund Freud

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"Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."

Poetry Quote by Paul Engle
(1908-1991) University of Iowa

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"To have great poets there must be great audiences too."

Poetry Quote by Walt Whitman
American Poet (1819-1892)

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"Poetry is an orphan of silence.
The words never quite equal the experience behind them."

Poetry Quotes by Charles Simic
American Poet born in 1938

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"One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves."

Poetry Quote by W. H. Auden
English and American Poet (1907-1973)

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"Peotry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

Poetry Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Poet (1792-1822)

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"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul,
and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."

Poetry Quotes by John Keats
English Poet (1795-1821)

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"Poetry ... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

Poetry Quote by John Keats
English Poet (1795-1821)

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"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language."

Poetry Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Poet (1772-1834).

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"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."

Poetry Quote by Robert Graves
English Poet (1895-1985)

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"A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweler, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more."

Poetry Qoute by Horace Walpole
English Poet (1717-1797)

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"God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations."

Poetry Qoute by Robert Browning
Famous English Poet (1812-1889)

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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

Poetry Quote by Paul Valery
French Poet (1871-1945)

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"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet,
though he has never written a line in all his life."

Poetry Quote by George Sand
Female French writer who used the pseudonym George Sand (1804-1876)

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"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."

Poetry Quote by Alfred de Musset
French Romantic Poet (1810-1857)

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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

Poetry Quote by Plato

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"Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular."

Poetry Quote by Aristotle

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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

Subject: Re: !!~~~poetry quotes~~~!! 2008-08-07, 19:32

"A poet is someone who is astonished by everything."
-- Anonymous

"The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "
--Aristotle, On Poetics

"Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare."
-- Matthew Arnold

"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."
-- Russell Baker

"Always be a poet, even in prose. "
--Charles Baudelaire

"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images."
-- Niels Bohr

"Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. "
--William Bolitho

"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry."
-- Georges Brague

"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."
-- William C. Bryant

"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "
--John Cage

"The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "
--Jean Cocteau

" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
--Leonard Cohen

"Prose [is] words in their best order; Poetry [is] the best words in the best order."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."
-- Mario Cuomo

" My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me."
-- Countee Cullen

" Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate."
-- John Denham

" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things."
-- Emily Dickinson

"To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - True Poems flee."
--Emily Dickinson

" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
-- Paul Dirac

" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."
-- T. S. Eliot

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
-- T. S. Eliot

" I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling."
-- T. S. Eliot

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