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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Written by Carl Sandburg
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
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
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
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
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
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
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Written by Marianne Moore
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Written by George Sand
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Written by John Keats
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Written by Novalis
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
Written by John Cage
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Written by Gustave Flaubert
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Written by A. E. Housman
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Written by Joseph Joubert
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Written by Carl Sandburg

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