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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. — Gaston Bachelard

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were. — Paul Muldoon

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer made my mate. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not a great poetry fan. — Rupert Everett

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the. — Henry David Thoreau

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.
These two things are one. — Wallace Stevens

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

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best. — Donald Hall

She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing. — Brandon Villasenor

There may be losses too great to understand
That rove after you and
faint and terrible
rip unknown through your hand. — William Stafford

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. — Robinson Jeffers

It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots. — Robert Bly

The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions. — Girdhar Joshi

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. — Anne Lamott

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. — Eugenio Montale

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. — Stephen Spender

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate. — James Fenton

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte — Charlotte Eriksson

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. — John Keats

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess

The great Poetry that creates out of the soul of humankind is inaccurately explained if we reduce it to the personal — C. G. Jung

Great peace is found in little busy-ness. Chaucer — Sylvia Shaw Judson

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. — David Whyte

In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ... — Margaret Wise Brown

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. — Robert Morgan

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ... — Edith Sitwell

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. — Robert Morgan

Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man? — Douglas Wynne

Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do. — Bill Willingham

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. — Satya Nadella

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time. — Jack Nicholson

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side. — Frank O'Hara

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods. — Salman Rushdie

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie

Twinkle tiny star.
Oh, how great you truly are!
God's sign from afar. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini

Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more. — Jennifer A. Marshall

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire ... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire. — Henry David Thoreau

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. — Edward Hirsch

Great poets are great copy editors. — Dejan Stojanovic

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. — Mark Strand

Everyday could be a day of a great lesson — Martellis Thurmand

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry. — Felix Dennis

My love, can't you see
how much i love thee
For i through your eyes
shall see
Our great love
for all eternity — Amal Sagheer

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. — D.T. Suzuki

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence. — Lera Auerbach

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne — Orna Ross

Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell! — Dante Alighieri

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. — Robert Frost

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. — Alphonse De Lamartine

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant. — Hugh Kenner

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields. — Mason Cooley

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry — Thomas Cole

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. — David Whyte

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. — A. L. Rowse

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. — Dejan Stojanovic

Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry? — May Sarton

As the American poet, Marianne Moore, said: There is a great deal of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. — William Strunk Jr.

Great periods of poetry begin with an inordinate self-consciousness, and only gradually attain to the natural. — Mark Van Doren

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. — Walter Savage Landor

What raises great poetry above all else
it is the entire person and also the entire world. — Franz Grillparzer

The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment — Wallace Stevens

What is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac

Nature is bent on new beginning
and death has not a chance of winning ... — Rosy Cole

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. — Laura Marling

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.
So be passionate and write a great story. — Debasish Mridha

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. — William H Gass

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry. — Adrienne Rich