Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry,"
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ~Carl Sandburg
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson
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I wish they had forced me to learn poetry by heart at school. I am sure it could be very effective in anger management. I have the Guardian series of poetry books in the loo, but altho I am enjoying them I am annoyed that the only woman in the Twentieth Century worthy of print is young Sylvia Plath, no disrespect I am enjoying her richness, but surely there were/are others!
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