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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
-Wallace Stevens

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
-Thomas Hardy

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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
-Sylvia Plath

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
-Stephen Mallarme

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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
-Samuel Mcchord Crothers

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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
-Salman Rushdie

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
-Robert Frost

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".
-Robert Penn Warren

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
-Robert Frost

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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
-Robert Graves

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Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.
-Robert Gilfillan

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
-Robert Frost

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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
-Richard Rosen

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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-Rene Char

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
-Randall Jarell

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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
-Plato

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-Paul Valery

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