“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… Continue reading →

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”

– Percy Shelley –

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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

– Plato –

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“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”

– W.B. Yeats –

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“The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse… the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be.  Hence poetry is something more… Continue reading →

“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”

– Carl Sandburg –

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“Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ”

– John Keats –

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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ”

– Oscar Wilde –

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“To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -True Poems flee.”

– Emily Dickinson –

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“The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the… Continue reading →