“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 →

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat.”

– Robert Frost –

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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

– Percy Byshe Shelley –

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“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet.  So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ”

– Samuel McChord Crothers –

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