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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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“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.” – Carl Sandburg
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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 when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost
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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” – Khalil Gibran
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” – T. S. Eliot
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“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death-bed.” – W.B. Yeats
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“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.” – Alice Walker
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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.” – Salvatore Quasimodo
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“A poet’s mission is to make moments of empathy in language.” – Adrienne Rich MISSING SPECIAL MOMENTS QUOTES
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“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind.” – Eileen Myles
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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” – Marianne Moore
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“Poetry, even when seemingly most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.” – James Baldwin
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“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” – Rita Dove
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“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” – Paul Engle
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“A poet’s job is to translate unspeakable emotional states into unspeakable linguistic forms.” – Hanif Abdurraqib
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“The act of writing poetry is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn’t matter.” – Edward Hirsch
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“Poetry is a way of seeing things.” – John Keats
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“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.” – Joseph Roux
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“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.” – Christopher Fry