pOetry QuOtes

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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov

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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

Robert Frost

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

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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau

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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Lionel Trilling

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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage

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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

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" ومع ذلك فإن تحديد شعر جديد خاص بنا نحن في هذا العصر لا يبحث عنه جوهرياً في فوضى الشكل، ولا في التخلى المتزايد عن شروط البيت، بل في وظيفة الممارسة الشعرية التي هي طاقة ارتياد وكشف"

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"Le premier qui compara la femme à une rose était un poète, le second un imbécile."

Gérard de Nerval

"Je sais que la poésie est indispensable, mais je ne sais pas à quoi."

Jean Cocteau

Dans la poésie, la vie est encore plus vie que la vie même.

Vissarion Bielinski

La poésie - par des voies inégales et feutrées - nous mène vers la pointe du jour au pays de la première fois.

André Chedid

If poetry is a dream, the business of life is much the same. If it is a fiction, made up of what we wish things to be, and fancy that they are, because we wish them so, there is no other nor better reality.

william hazlitt

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them: and the truth of truths is love

Philip James Bailey

One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

W. H. Auden

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

Qu’est-ce qu’un poète, si ce n’est un traducteur, un déchiffreur ?

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

On naît poète, on devient prosateur.

Alfred de Musset

On peut être poète dans tous les domaines : il suffit que l'on soit aventureux et que l'on aille à la découverte.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,
Its gaudy colours spreads on every place;
The face of Nature we no more survey,
All glares alike, without distinction gay;
But true expression, like th'unchanging sun,
Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon;
It gilds all objects, but it alters none.

—Alexander Pope, English poet, An Essay on Criticism, 1711

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

Joseph Roux

" I wish all our clever young poets would remember by homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose equals words in their best order; poetry equals the best words in the best order."
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
~Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry," Reasons for Moving, 1968

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

~Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
~Pablo Picasso

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage

God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning

Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

Thomas Hill

Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray

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