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Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.

» Anonymous (-)

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

» Anonymous (-)

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

» Aristotle (384-322) Greek philosopher and scientist [Tutor of Alexander the Great]

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

» Aristotle (384-322) Greek philosopher and scientist [Tutor of Alexander the Great]

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.

» Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

» Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

» Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

» Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

» Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

» Diane Ackerman (1948-?) American poet, Writerand naturalist

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

» Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

» Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

» Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) American poet

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies u

» Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) French playwright, and poet

A good poet's made as well as born.

» Ben Johnson (1572-1637) English dramatist, poet and actor

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

» Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

» Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

» Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845) American poet, critic, and short-story writer

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