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" Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "

" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

" Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. "

Robert W. Service

" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "

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" Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. "

Robert Fitzgerald

" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "

" One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. "

" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "

" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing. "

" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. "

" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "

" The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. "

" Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. "

" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "

" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "

Bertrand Russell

" When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "

" When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. "

Douglas Coupland

" The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. "

" Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. "

" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

" Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. "

" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "