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Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
William Rose Benet
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Anon.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
Mark Strand
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
John Drinkwater
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
Robert Morgan
No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?
John Barton
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
Eugenio Montale
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
Carol Ann Duffy
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
Peter Porter
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
Robert Adamson
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Denis Diderot
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale
