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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 aroundand 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 useof 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 difficultto 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
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
Must always try to be out thereGetting 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
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 journeywithout someone who wanders
if sometimes a pair
is made of two — Lori Jenessa Nelson
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 lifethe 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
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
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
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, thatthe 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
there are only so many thingsthat you can fix with your hands.
...What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix. — Danabelle Gutierrez
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
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
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 learnWhat 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
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 thepoet'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
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
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
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
Poetry is what you findin 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 riposteTo the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost
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
