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Poetry Quotes
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Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. (Quote by - William Blissett)
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow. (Quote by - The Quote Garden)
The finest poetry was first experience. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. (Quote by - A.E. Housman)
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
Who can tell the dancer from the dance? (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. (Quote by - Salvatore Quasimodo)
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
God is the perfect poet. (Quote by - Robert Browning)