| Author |
Quotes |
| Bhagavad Gita | Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig. |
| Bidpai | 'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. |
| C K Williams | morning: that first sapphire dome of glow. |
| Carl Sandburg | Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. |
| Carl Sandburg | Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment. |
| Carl Sandburg | Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. |
| Carl Sandburg | Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. |
| Carl Sandburg | I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. |
| Christopher Morley | The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. |
| Dennis Gabor | Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. |
| Dylan Thomas | 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 of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. |
| E B White | A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. |
| E M Forster | A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. |
| Earle Birney | The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. |
| Edwin Hubbel Chapin | Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. |
| George Crabbe | Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? |
| Horace | No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. |
| Jean Cocteau | Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. |
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