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Poetry Quotes & Sayings

poetry-Poetry is truth dwelling in

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.
- Robert Gilfillan

poetry-Poetry should be common in

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
- Robert Frost

poetry-The poem is the point

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
- Richard Rosen

poetry-A poet must leave traces

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- Rene Char

poetry-A poet is a man

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
- Randall Jarell

poetry-Poetry comes nearer to vital

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato

poetry-Poetry is a mirror which

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

poetry-A poem is never finished,

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery

poetry-Poetry is boned with ideas,

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Paul Engle

poetry-Poetry is ordinary language raised

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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