Poetry

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POETRY: Poetry came before reading and writing. (Camron Wright, U.S. author)
POETRY: Before reading and writing was poetry. (Camron Wright, U.S. author)
POETRY: Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. (William Congreve, English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729)
POETRY: Poetry, therefore, we will call ‘Musical Thought.’ (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
POETRY: One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
POETRY: If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. (Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet who was highly critical of much in Victorian society, 1840-1928)
POETRY: The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)
POETRY: The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance and the human voice. (Earle Birney, Canadian poet and novelist, 1904-1995)
POETRY: Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic and writer, 1903-1974)
POETRY: For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. (Sylvia Plath, U.S. poet, novelist, and short-story writer, 1932-1963)
POETRY: For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. (Robert Penn Warren, U.S. poet, novelist, literary critic, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, 1905-1989)
POETRY: Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know. (Joseph Roux, French Catholic parish priest, poet, and philologist, 1834-1905)
POETRY: Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. (William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, 1865-1939)
POETRY: A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)
POETRY: Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)
POETRY: Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)
POETRY: Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. (Maxwell Bodenheim, U.S. poet and novelist whose writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, 1892-1954)