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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one. – Michel de Montaigne	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. – Simonides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. – Adrian Mitchell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles Simic	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. – John Keats	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. – Russell Baker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. – This Is Spinal Tap	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – G. K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows. – Peter Brodie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. – Mario M Cuomo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. – Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry. – Jesse Louis Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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