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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." Robert Frost 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." Robert Frost 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child." Henry Mencken 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair." Robert Frost 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation." Friedrich Nietzsche 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing." T.S. Eliot 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse." Oliver Wendell Holmes 0 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes." C.S. Lewis 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." T.S. Eliot 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." Robert Frost 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet." Bob Dylan 4.7 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." Emily Dickinson 0 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." T.S. Eliot 4.375 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.923076923076923 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." T.S. Eliot 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads." Marianne Moore 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." Robert Frost 4.384615384615385 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Robert Frost 4.571428571428571 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." T.S. Eliot 4.888888888888889 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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