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Poetry Quotes

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry."

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)"

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough."

"Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language"

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep"

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Moonlight is sculpture"

"The earth laughs in flowers "

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."

"I think: the sky is blue and the flowers are red."

"Gather out of star-dust, earth-dust, cloud-dust"

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

"As a poet, I should like to say that my only argument is with those who do not interest me, and that I can have no quarrel with those who do."

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful poetic things to the heart."

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