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Poetry Quotes

9/10/2018

 
compiled by Jude Aquilina
 
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.     John Wain
 
The two most engaging powers of a poet are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.                        W. M. Thackeray
                                                          
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during that moment.                  Carl Sandburg
 
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.         W. H. Auden
 
Prose is words in their best order; poetry is the best words in the best order.      Samuel  Tayler Coleridge
 
You can't wait for inspiration.  You have to go after it with a club!        Jack London                                           
 
What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure.      Samuel Johnson
 
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open         Anon
 
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.       Shakespeare
 
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had time to make it shorter.           Blaise Pascal
 
Every style that is not boring is a good one.                      Voltaire
                                                                                                                          
A sense of humour is the pole which helps us to walk the tight-rope of life.       Anon
 
A poet is a person who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.                            Edmond de Concourt
 
Poetry is the access to the dream mind.          Les Murray
 
I enjoy writing poetry. It feels as if there are no limits or restrictions. I don’t have to control or sensor my imagination.  It feels indulgent, like spending the day in and out of a hot bubble bath.  I feel annoyed when I have to stop writing, get out of the bath and go to work ...   Evette Wolf, TAFE student
 
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.             Christopher Fry
 
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.     Joseph Joubert
 
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.      Adrian Mitchell
 
The unfinished is nothing.              Henri Frederic Amiel
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