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"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 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A poem is no place for an idea." Edgar Watson Howe 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did." Christopher Morley Rate this Quote
"A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring." E.B. White Rate this Quote
"Imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Marianne Moore 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A poem should not mean But be." Archibald MacLeish 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." Robert Frost 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Robert Frost 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost Rate this Quote
"I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down." Robert Frost 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession." Robert Frost 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." Robert Heinlein 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory." Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rate this Quote
"To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - True Poems flee." Emily Dickinson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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