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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Written by Carl Sandburg
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Written by John Fowles
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
Written by John Cage
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Written by Pablo Casals
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Written by Plato
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Written by Khalil Gibran
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Written by Norman O. Brown
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Written by Jean Giraudoux
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Written by Robert Frost
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Written by Charles Simic
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Written by Woody Allen
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
Written by Muriel Rukeyser
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Written by Muriel Rukeyser
The cliche is dead poetry.
Written by Gerald Brenan
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Written by Louis Kronenberger
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Written by Sinclair Lewis
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Written by David Carradine
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Written by John Muir
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Written by Brooks Atkinson
God is the perfect poet.
Written by Robert Browning
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Written by Plato
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Written by Beverley Nichols
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Written by Albert Einstein
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Written by Robert Graves
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Written by John Keats
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Written by Leonard Cohen

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