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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” – William Wordsworth
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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” – W.H. Auden
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“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.” – Carl Sandburg
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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” – Robert Frost
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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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“A poem should not mean but be.” – Archibald MacLeish
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“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” – Rita Dove
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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“Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.” – Voltaire
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“Poetry is the art of creating something that feels true even though it might not be true.” – Ada Limón
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“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.” – Dylan Thomas
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“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley MORE PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT QUOTES
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“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.” – Carl Sandburg
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“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” – Charles Bukowski
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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” – Marianne Moore
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“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.” – T.S. Eliot
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“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.” – Christopher Fry
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“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” – Carl Sandburg
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“Poetry is language that speaks to the soul.” – Allen Ginsberg
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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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“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” – Thomas Gray
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“Poetry is the art of making something happen in the little space of a line.” – Audre Lorde
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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” – Khalil Gibran