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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."	Robert Frost
"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 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
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."	Robert Frost
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."	Robert Frost
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."	Robert Frost
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."	T.S. Eliot
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."	Robert Frost
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."	T.S. Eliot
"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
"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."	GK Chesterton
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."	Marianne Moore
"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
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."	Christopher Morley

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