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"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth." Samuel Johnson
"Poetry is nothing but healthy speech." Henry David Thoreau
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary." Kahlil Gibran
"Poetry is life distilled." Gwendolyn Brooks
"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." Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted." Percy Shelley
"Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades." Boris Pasternak
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." Robert Frost
"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes." Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." Edgar Allan Poe
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful." Rita Dove
"Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words." Paul Engle
"Poetry is as precise as geometry." Gustave Flaubert
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads." Marianne Moore
"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." Charles Simic
"...poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose." Sylvia Plath
"Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off." Philip Larkin
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment." Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul." Henrik Ibsen
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing." Edmund Burke
"Poetry is not a turning loose
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