Literary Quotes - Poetry - http://maxpages.com/myxsoul/Literary

"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book." *Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion." *Edgar Allen Poe

"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." *Plato

"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry." * Georges Brague

"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls." * Voltaire

"A poet is someone who is astonished by everything." * Anonymous

"...if a poem is clear, well thought out, purposive, logical and true, it will have changed something...first, in the poet himself...because if this does not happen...there is no poem." *Gieve Patel

"The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that what is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in." * Dylan Thomas

"Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom." *Robert Frost

"Poetry is the shape and shade and size of words as they hum, strum, jig and gallop along." * Dylan Thomas

"Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right." * Wallace Stevens

"The raw material of poetry is human experiences: all poetry is made from that. Not only from rare and subtle and mysterious and spiritual and abstract and esoteric experiences, but from all and every form of human experience." *Elizabeth Drew

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." *W. H. Auden

"Poetry is not a thing said but a way of saying it." *A. E. Housman

"Poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry." * Simonides

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." *Oscar Wilde

"Poetry forces you to say what you have to say." *Octavia Butler

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." * Paul Valer

"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation." *Robert Fitzgerald

"Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation." *C. Fitzhugh

"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." *Robert Frost

"The eye is the notebook of the poet." *James Russell Lowell

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." *Carl Sandburg

"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech." *Henry David Thoreau

"Has any poet or critc successfully defined poetry? They talk about it in such very different terms that it is difficult to believe that they are describing the same activity." *Elizabeth Drew

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