Poetry Quotes And Sayings

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“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that.  Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
– Gustave Flaubert

“Poetry is life distilled.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks

“The union of a want and a sentiment.”
– Honore de Balzac

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”
– Ivan Panin 

“Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.”
– J. Patrick Lewis

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
– J. Patrick Lewis

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
– J. Patrick Lewis

“You can’t write poetry on the computer.”                      
– J. Patrick Lewis

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
– James Branch Cabell

“Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.”
– James Branch Cabell

“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 who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
– James Dickey

“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”
– James Tate

“Poets aren’t very useful because they aren’t consumeful or very produceful.”
– James Tate

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical.  Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
– Jean Cocteau

“I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”
– Jean Cocteau

“The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then”
– Jean Cocteau

“The poet doesn’t invent.  He listens.”
– Jean Cocteau

“The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.”
– Jean Cocteau

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Jeremiah Walton

“Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.”
– John Cage

“You don’t have to suffer to be a poet.  Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”
– John Ciardi

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
– John Fowles

“If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going to be average.”
– John Keats

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”
– John Keats

“Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
– John Keats

“Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.”
– Joseph Joubert

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
– Joseph Joubert

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat.”
– Joseph Roux

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”
– Joseph Roux

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
– Kahlil Gibran

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