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“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
― T.S. Eliot

“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.”
― Dylan Thomas

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
― Rick Riordan

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
― Randall Jarell

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
― E.E. Cummings

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”
― Maya Angelou

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
― Robert Frost

“may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.”
― E.E. Cummings

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valery

“Imagination is a gift. Don't waste it!”
― Jeanne Warnes

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
― Edgar Allan Poe