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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."	Robert Frost
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."	Robert Frost
"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."	Henry Mencken
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."	Robert Frost
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation."	Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"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
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."	T.S. Eliot
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."	Robert Frost
"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."	Bob Dylan
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."	Emily Dickinson
"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
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."	T.S. Eliot
"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
"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
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."	Marianne Moore
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."	Robert Frost
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."	Robert Frost
"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

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