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"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority."	Marion Garretty
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite."	Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."	Paul Dirac
"The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then"	Author Unknown
"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."	Kahlil Gibran
"Imaginary gardens with real toads in them."	Marianne Moore
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."	Robert Frost
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."	Robert Frost
"I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."	Robert Frost
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."	Robert Heinlein
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."	Sir Francis Bacon
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."	Abraham Maslow
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold."	Zelda
"Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold."	Zelda
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Abraham Maslow	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine	Archibald MacLeish
Author Unknown	Charles Baudelaire	Christopher Morley
E.B. White	Edgar Watson Howe	Edmund Burke
Edward Bulwer-Lytton	Emily Dickinson	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Jean Anouilh	Jesse Louis Jackson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Kahlil Gibran	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Marianne Moore
Marion Garretty	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michel Leiris	Oscar Wilde	Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	Peter Brodie	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reginald Blyth	Robert Frost	Robert Heinlein
Robert Graves	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Francis Bacon
Thomas Carlyle	T.S. Eliot	T. S. Eliot
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