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"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation."	Friedrich Nietzsche
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."	Emily Dickinson
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."	Emily Dickinson
"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."	Henry Mencken
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."	Lionel Trilling
"Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible."	C.S. Lewis
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."	GK Chesterton
"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."	Bob Dylan
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."	Robert Frost
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."	Robert Frost
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."	Robert Frost
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."	Robert Frost
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."	Robert Frost
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."	Robert Frost
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."	Robert Frost
"Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in."	Robert Frost
"The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author�s explanations, it never should have been published."	Archibald MacLeish
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."	Marianne Moore
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."	Christopher Morley

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