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Poetry Is Quotes - Page 5

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

Thomas Budd Shaw, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1853). “Outlines of English Literature”, p.468

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.750, Simon and Schuster

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.393, Vintage

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

Billy Collins (2012). “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

"Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, 1984.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.51, Wave Books

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Hayden Carruth (2006). “Toward the Distant Islands: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

James Dickey, Ronald Baughman (1989). “The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt