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- No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
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- Poetry is music written for the human voice.
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- 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.
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- Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
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- Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
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- Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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- I have a new method of poetry: All you got to do is look over your notebooks or lay down on a couch and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries; then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each -- don't bother about sentences -- in sections of two, three or four lines each.
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- There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
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- Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself.
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- Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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- A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
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- Not every poem's good because it's ancient, Nor mayst thou blame it just because it's new,Fair critics test, and prove, and so pass judgment; Fools praise or blame as they hear others do.
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- The moment of change is the only poem.
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- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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- A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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- Poems are just stories...with the boring parts left out.
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- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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- For every poem that I begin to write, I think of at least ten which I do not write down at all.
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- The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
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- A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
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