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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T. S. Eliot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. – Lord Byron	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed 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 13 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, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection. – E.C. Stedman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. – John Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. – Edward Hubbell Chaplin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert Frost	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." – Martin Luther King Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. – John Ruskin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. – William E. Channing	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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 we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things. – Emily Dickinson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. – T. S. Eliot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. – Frederick William Robertson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. – L. Schefer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. – Percy Bysshe Shelley	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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