| Author |
Quotes |
| Jean Cocteau | The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. |
| John Fletcher | Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme. |
| John Fletcher | Poetry is what gets lost in translation. |
| John Keats | Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. |
| Joseph Joubert | You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. |
| Kahlil Gibran | Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder with a dash of the dictionary |
| Lionel Trilling | The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. |
| Marianne Moore | Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. |
| Marianne Moore | Poetry is all nouns and verbs. |
| Mark Van Doren | The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. |
| Maxwell Bodenheim | For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. |
| Mikhail Dudan | Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. |
| Novalis | Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. |
| Ogden Nash | Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. |
| Paul Engle | 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 | Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. |
| Paul Valery | A poem is never finished, only abandoned. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. |
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