The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.
Poetry is not a luxury.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Poetry is the enemy of the poem.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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