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    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.

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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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God is the perfect poet.

God is the perfect poet.

by Robert Browning Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

by Stephen Mallarme Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all read more

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

by Paul Engle Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.

by Bhagavad Gita Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

by Unknown Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality read more

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these

by Emily Dickinson Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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