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    CONSIDERING THE VOID
    When I behold the charm
    of evening skies, their lulling endurance;
    the patterns of stars with names
    of bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin;
    other planets that the Voyager showed
    were like and so unlike our own,
    with all their diverse moons,
    bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces;
    comets with their streaming tails
    bent by pressure from our sun;
    the skyscape of our Milky Way
    holding in its shimmering disc
    an infinity of suns
    (or say a thousand billion);
    knowing there are holes of darkness
    gulping mass and even light,
    knowing that this galaxy of ours
    is one of multitudes
    in what we call the heavens,
    it troubles me. It troubles me.
    -President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest,
    about the Revolutionary War).

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the read more

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".

by Robert Penn Warren Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call read more

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

by Rainer Maria Rilke Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

by Carl Sandburg Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

by Marianne Moore Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No read more

The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

by Mark Van Doren Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning read more

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

by Randall Jarell Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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