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If poetry is what you live for then do it write. — R.M. Engelhardt

What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson

What we call life is only talk of nature. — Dejan Stojanovic

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it. — Georges Seurat

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1) — William Shakespeare

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. — Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. — Seamus Heaney

Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
Can anyone die without even a little? — Mark Strand

What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine.
What is poetry! And you are asking me?
Poetry ... is you. — Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost

Poetry is the imitation of the most important aspect of human existence life and that's what make's it so beautiful and necessary. — Nicolas Saperstein

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. — Georges Braque

Why speak of the use
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us. — Hayden Carruth

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words. — Debasish Mridha

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for? — Orson F. Whitney

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown

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

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me. — Ryan Adams

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read. — Victoria Chang

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? — Owen Barfield

Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway. — James Monaco

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can. — Edward Hirsch

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Must always try to be out there
Getting everything out there
Take what is inside yourself
And place it out there. — Initially NO

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. — Augustus William Hare

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. — Jean Cocteau

Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem. — Pattiann Rogers

what is a journey
without someone who wanders
if sometimes a pair
is made of two — Lori Jenessa Nelson

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost

Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all — T. S. Eliot

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. — Walt Whitman

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life
the poetry. — Le Corbusier

Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. — Diane Wakoski

The problem with love is not what we feel but what we wish we felt when we began to feel we should feel something. — Nikki Giovanni

No man is his costume; it is only what he wears to the dance. — Heather K. O'Hara

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it. — W. H. Auden

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?
Shall I ever find it, whatever it is? — Sylvia Plath

But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said? — John Crowley

Every soul needs a touch of erotic love. A deep, unconditional love is what every heart truly desires. True love is passionately erotic. — Salil Jha

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. — Erica Jong

Why love what you will lose?
There is nothing else to love. — Louise Gluck

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man. — Dejan Stojanovic

Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome? — John Milton

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? — Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language. — Debasish Mridha

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton

If you are only what you are,
You at least have a chance
Not to outsmart,
But be on a par with yourself
And that is worth trying. — Dejan Stojanovic

you'll find the buildings taller, that
the halls are full of ghosts
but everything still here is
what you remember most — Savannah Brown

What a comfort to know that God is a poet. — Rachel Held Evans

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand

Everyone has it
To know what it is.
Take a journey deep within
And open your eyes wide.
Then you will see everything. — Ilchi Lee

there are only so many things
that you can fix with your hands.

...What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix. — Danabelle Gutierrez

For what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear? — Ouida

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. — Robert Morgan

If what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth — Robert Peake

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

A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination. — Debasish Mridha

Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart — Martellis Thurmand

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent. — Debasish Mridha

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means.
But nobody is asking, How does it feel? — Mary Oliver

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. — Lascelles Abercrombie

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama. — Dannie Abse

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

A word is elegy to what it signifies. — Robert Haas

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild. That has always appealed to me. — Robert Pinsky

Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create. — Shannon Lynette

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. — Seamus Heaney

Poetry is what is gained in translation. — Joseph Brodsky

I will tell you what is poetry ...
It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit ... — Chelsey Minnis

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is no limitation, to where God can take you. Think of all the possibilities of what he could give you. — Colishia S. Benjamin

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone

What is the savior of the world doing among these wire fences, in all this broken glass? — Janet McAdams

You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up the
poet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance. — Charlotte Eriksson

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through. — Margaret Atwood

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. — Rita Dove

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength. — Tanya R. Liverman

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know. — Mark Doty

It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. — Edith Sitwell

What grace I have is enough. — Theodore Roethke

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is? — Jason E. Hodges

What you are trying to let go of
...is already gone. — Sanober Khan

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. — Louis Untermeyer

Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
to get from here to there. — Elizabeth Alexander

Poetry is what frightens. It is rare, and worth waiting for. — Joyce Carol Oates

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn't know what else to be. — Alice Notley

Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer. — Debasish Mridha

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is — James Branch Cabell

Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities. — Luis Vaz De Camoes

What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare. — W.H. Davies