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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” – Emily Dickinson
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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” – Robert Frost
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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” – William Wordsworth
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“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.” – Dennis Gabor
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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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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” – Khalil Gibran
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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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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” – W.H. Auden
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“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” – James Dickey
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“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.” – Audre Lorde
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” – Rita Dove WORLD WAR 2 FAMOUS QUOTES
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“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” – Charles Bukowski
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“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” – Paul Valéry
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“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” – June Jordan
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“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.” – Augustus William Hare
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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 nearer to vital truth than history.” – Plato
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“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” – Thomas Gray
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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 an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” – Carl Sandburg
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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” – Khalil Gibran
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“Poetry is life distilled.” – Gwendolyn Brooks