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If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. — Kahlil Gibran

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — Matthew Arnold

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor

Rebuke

Obstinate regression
bringing untold paths
of deep dark foreboding
depression... — Muse

Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them. — Ashim Shanker

Depths of Friendship
... under fathoms deep
of dark and bitter cold
an eerie oscillation
reverberated brash and bold ... — Muse

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Do you see the power of the rain? — Ursula Kay Vos

Crystal ball and candle light, I want your dance tonight. Show me the power of love as we stand together in the middle of the night. — Santosh Kalwar

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge. — Dejan Stojanovic

Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave. — E. M. Forster

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. — Aberjhani

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose! — Cupideros

A drainless shower
Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power;
'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm. — John Keats

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. — Max Beerbohm

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion. — Carol Ann Duffy

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. — William Matthews

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive. — Rana Dasgupta

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something. — Junot Diaz

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. — Louis Untermeyer

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Music is the universal language of mankind. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. — Alan W. Watts

I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light. — Jodi Livon

A beautiful woman combining the prospect of happiness and nakedness in the same spoken sentence could achieve the power of the greatest lyric poetry. — Nick Hornby

When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence — J.F. Kennedy

Lourdes
Poetry is my Lourdes ~
a spiritual oasis where I come to heal
in the divine power of words. — Beryl Dov

The power of a woman is in the tears she sheds, and the power of a man is wiping those tears while shedding his own. — Michael Jones

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

I have often been called insane by those who underestimate the power of poetry. — Dan Simmons

That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski

We left you there, lonely,
Beauty your power,
Wisdom your watchman,
To hold the clay tower.
from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree — Vachel Lindsay

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion! — Madame De Stael

all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan

There comes a period of the imagination to each
a later youth
the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery

remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of love. — AVA.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. — Mahmoud Darwish