"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." ~Oscar Wilde
"A poet is someone who can pour light into a spoon, and then raise it to nourish your beautiful, parched holy mouth." ~Hafiz
"A poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence - because he has no identity. The setting sun will always set me to rights, and if a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick up the gravel." ~John Keats
"A song is poetry with notes you can sing with." ~Leah C. Dancel, March 22, 2018
"A poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence - because he has no identity. The setting sun will always set me to rights, and if a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick up the gravel." ~John Keats
"A song is poetry with notes you can sing with." ~Leah C. Dancel, March 22, 2018
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ~Virginia Woolf
"Believe me, a poet isn't just the person
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise." ~Oscar Wilde
who writes poems." ~Alexandra Vasiliu
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise." ~Oscar Wilde
"I look back over this long incredible journey, with surprise at the dreams which became reality, a tapestry of intricate beauty, and poetry." ~Barbara Barnes
“I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.” ~John Updike (American writer, b.1932)
“I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.” ~John Updike (American writer, b.1932)
"If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry." ~Anon
"If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live." ~John F. Kennedy
“It’s a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires of the heart that their hands may never hold.” ~Terry a O'Neal
"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers." ~Horace
"Poetry is a deal of joy, and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary." ~Khalil Gibran
"Poetry is a powerful tool in its conveyance of the true meaning of life in the image of words regardless of their brevity, conciseness and terseness." ~Leah C. Dancel
"Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen." ~Fleur Adcock
"Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life." ~William Hazlitt
"Poetry is an echo, asking the shadow to dance." ~Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
"Poetry is as old as the Stone Age." ~Leah C. Dancel, 22 November 2013
"Poetry is designed for more than just moments of tranquility... Verses of action and drama, of voyage through the sea and sky, can inspire and provide secret pleasure in an everyday world ..." ~Ana Sampson
"Poetry is essential to get a sense of how language works – how distillation pand rhythm and rhyme and colour can give the mere act of putting words together an extraordinary expressive power." ~Unattributed by George Daniel Anos
"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone." ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Poetry is just an extension of who each person really is inside. The outer does not always express the inner state. All things are a state of mind and such is poetry." ~William Wordsworth
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." ~Leonard Cohen
"Poetry is music expressed and delivered in spoken words." ~Leah C. Dancel, September 14, 2017
"Poetry is not an opinion expressed. It is a song that rises from a bleeding wound or a smiling mouth." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before." ~Audre Lorde
"Poetry is one human intellectual gadget where we expressed ourselves - in everything we do, we think, we believe, we feel - in extraordinary term by words beyond comprehension of a
"Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge." ~William Wordsworth
"Poetry is the creation of, by and for the soul." ~Joffre Balce
"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness." ~James Gates Percivalq
"We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses." ~William Butler Yeats
“You speak as one who fed on poetry.” ~Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton on Poetry
"You will write poetry again Leah because you have the words in your heart and you will express them so that others feel what you write! Don't rush yourself but as you gather the words write them down and you will put them in order in due time. I for one am excited to think those words only have to be sorted!" ~Theolinda Foster, FB
"Your poem might not rhyme, but remember that not all poems must rhyme - in fact, non-rhyming poems can sometimes be more moving." ~How to write a love poem (Source: Wikihow)
POEMS
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." ~Robert Frost
"A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s heart says to her mind, and her voice finds a body for. Each good poem is shapely god; keeping its own secrets, it tells us our own." ~Centre for Continuing Education
"Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay." ~Janet Fitch, White Oleander
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." ~Virginia Woolf
“If you sit in the darkness and write poems about the beauty of light, that doesn't mean you understand the importance of light! The whole point is to praise the light not when you don't have it but when you have it!” ~Mehmet Murat ildan
"Life is a poem most people never read." ~Laurence Overmire
"Poems are like butterflies - coming occasionally, landing briefly, often a wonder." ~Jayna Forrest
"Poems can describe something inside yourself you didn't know was there. They can transport you to a world you believe exists though you don't know why. They fill your soul with exactly the one thing it was missing." ~Anon
"Poems come as they will." ~Nayyirah Waheed
"Poems come as they will. They come as they want, when I’m waking, eating, exercising, chatting with someone. Sometimes they come to me as a whole, sometimes a line. I think it’s one of the ways my soul communicates with me, I do my best to sit down and listen." ~Nayyirah Waheed
"Some of the most wonderful poems ever written by mankind are hidden in books old and dusty and long forgotten." ~Anon
"Sometimes, writing is all that we have. Sometimes, the best poems are written for the wrong ones. Sometimes, our poems are the only thing that remained right for them." ~Mica Meñez, A Cup of Words and Coffee
"Poetry is a season
Impinged on colorful vagaries and flattery
Chartered by men from all cultures
Beguiling unwary maidens
In pursuit of King Solomon's heart."
~Leah Dancel, Poetry, 3 August 2011
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"Poetry is a voice
Composed of harmony and melody;
A spokesman of the soul
And companion of the conscience."
~Leah Dancel, Poetry, 3 August 2011~
The Rhyming Place
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"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
~Khalil Gibran
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"If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live." ~John F. Kennedy
“It’s a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires of the heart that their hands may never hold.” ~Terry a O'Neal
"It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live." ~Henry Beston
"It is the poetry of nature, it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. " ~John Ruskin
"It is written on the arched sky, it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of nature, it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. " ~John Ruskin
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"Life is poetry embroidered in a tapestry of experience." ~Leah C. Dancel, July 12, 2021 ~•✿•~ ~•✿•~
"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers." ~Horace
"On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity." ~Pablo Neruda
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... but with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But be drunk." ~Charles Baudelaire, French Poet 1855
"Only Pain is the True Poetry for pain is the lot of us humans." ~Yesu Ben
"Our journey on earth is composed of poetry with lots of figure of speech best expressed in metaphors; thus described the highs and lows of life." ~Leah C. Dancel, January 19, 2019
"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Poems give meaning to life. Learn to appreciate poetry." ~Dr. Willie Ong
"Poems give meaning to life. Learn to appreciate poetry." ~Dr. Willie Ong
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"Poem is to words as music is to heartstrings. Their common attribute is a rhythm that emphasizes emotion. This is important in creating musical poetry " ~Leah C. Dancel, July 21, 2021,
#FPBQuote 5 on Music and Poetry
"Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it." ~Rumi
"Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire." ~Adrienne Rich
"Poetry conjures up imaginary worlds of magic and mystery in a far more unfettered way than prose or the paintbrush." ~Ana Sampson, Poems to Learn by Heart
"Poetry conjures up imaginary worlds of magic and mystery in a far more unfettered way than prose or the paintbrush." ~Ana Sampson, Poems to Learn by Heart
"Poetry for me is like the mountain, like the ocean or the sky. It helps in evoking or mapping many emotions that we keep within ourselves in few lines while leaving much space for those who encounter them to form their own stories too. Without any limits or positions, It’s a freedom. It can be one word or many." ~Tenzin Choegyal, poetry ambassador
"... poetry ... has its own unique cadence, it's uncommon tap and sway. The simpler, the better. Dance if you must, weep if you must. Feel free to experiment, to fly." ~Joel Pablo Salud, Editor-in-Chief, Philippines Graphic Magazine
"... poetry ... has its own unique cadence, it's uncommon tap and sway. The simpler, the better. Dance if you must, weep if you must. Feel free to experiment, to fly." ~Joel Pablo Salud, Editor-in-Chief, Philippines Graphic Magazine
"Poetry has rhythm like music.
The strings like pen dictates the mood
Happy or sad, broken or whole
Still touches the heart and soul."
~Winnie Dacoco-Carmona
"Poetry is a deal of joy, and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary." ~Khalil Gibran
"Poetry is a garden that blooms!" ~Leah C. Dancel, June 21 , 2021
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"Poetry is a mystery solved only by itself." ~Ian McFarlane
'Poetry is a place where the Infinite meets the finite and they celebrate their reunion." ~Susanne West (2023)
"Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass." ~MARY OLIVER
"Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen." ~Fleur Adcock
"Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life." ~William Hazlitt
"Poetry is an echo, asking the shadow to dance." ~Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
"Poetry is as old as the Stone Age." ~Leah C. Dancel, 22 November 2013
"Poetry is designed for more than just moments of tranquility... Verses of action and drama, of voyage through the sea and sky, can inspire and provide secret pleasure in an everyday world ..." ~Ana Sampson
"Poetry is essential to get a sense of how language works – how distillation pand rhythm and rhyme and colour can give the mere act of putting words together an extraordinary expressive power." ~Unattributed by George Daniel Anos
"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone." ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Poetry is just an extension of who each person really is inside. The outer does not always express the inner state. All things are a state of mind and such is poetry." ~William Wordsworth
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." ~Leonard Cohen
"Poetry is music expressed and delivered in spoken words." ~Leah C. Dancel, September 14, 2017
"Poetry is not an opinion expressed. It is a song that rises from a bleeding wound or a smiling mouth." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before." ~Audre Lorde
"Poetry is one human intellectual gadget where we expressed ourselves - in everything we do, we think, we believe, we feel - in extraordinary term by words beyond comprehension of a
"Poetry is painting that speaks." ~Plutarch
"Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge." ~William Wordsworth
"Poetry is the creation of, by and for the soul." ~Joffre Balce
"Poetry is the music of angels." ~Smaragdi Mitropoulou
"Poetry is the spontaneous outflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquillity." ~William Wordsworth
"Poetry is the spontaneous outflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquillity." ~William Wordsworth
"Poetry is the unexpected utterance of the soul." ~Mark Nepo
"Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought." ~Audre Lorde
"Poetry is to words as music is to dance." ~Joffre Balce
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ~Robert Frost
"Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance." ~M C Richards
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Poetry sites and Facebook are great places to make friends for life!" ~Theolinda Foster
'Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product rema ins closest to the thought that inspired it.... Of all things of thought, poetry is the closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art ... " ~Hannah Arendt
"Serenity is natural poetry and a meditation." ~Edward Soliangco
"Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them." ~Nikita Gill
"Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought." ~Audre Lorde
"Poetry is to words as music is to dance." ~Joffre Balce
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ~Robert Frost
"Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance." ~M C Richards
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Poetry sites and Facebook are great places to make friends for life!" ~Theolinda Foster
'Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product rema ins closest to the thought that inspired it.... Of all things of thought, poetry is the closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art ... " ~Hannah Arendt
"Serenity is natural poetry and a meditation." ~Edward Soliangco
"Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them." ~Nikita Gill
"Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted." ~Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes, poetry is like a game to play. There's nothing more beyond imagination and above reality." ~Leah C. Dancel, 10 March 2012
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." ~Jean Giraudoux
"The future of the humanities as a common possession depends on the restoration of a simple, single ideal: getting poetry by heart." ~Clive James, Cultural Amnesia
"Sometimes, poetry is like a game to play. There's nothing more beyond imagination and above reality." ~Leah C. Dancel, 10 March 2012
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." ~Jean Giraudoux
"The future of the humanities as a common possession depends on the restoration of a simple, single ideal: getting poetry by heart." ~Clive James, Cultural Amnesia
"The greatness of the poet is to see and convey the soul of all things in poetry." ©Hàn Quốc Vũ, Vietnam
"The poetry of the earth is never dead." ~John Keats
"The poetry of the earth is never dead." ~John Keats
"The power of words can break or make a man, woman or child. Poems, in my view, are stories, products of thoughts, weaved into a smaller package. Prose can be your playground (it is mine)... that bridges into poetry, if the winds allow it. Allow the heart to pour, quieten the mind." ~Hedda Tady
"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness." ~James Gates Percivalq
"This is my poetry
Music replaces words
Notes and sounds in sync
To sate my appetite for praise
Honour and thanks to the highest deity."
~Leah C. Dancel, April 7, 2021
On listening to Two Brothers playing Hallelujah on Pan Flutes
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"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession." ~Robert Frost
"We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses." ~William Butler Yeats
“You speak as one who fed on poetry.” ~Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton on Poetry
"You will write poetry again Leah because you have the words in your heart and you will express them so that others feel what you write! Don't rush yourself but as you gather the words write them down and you will put them in order in due time. I for one am excited to think those words only have to be sorted!" ~Theolinda Foster, FB
"Your poem might not rhyme, but remember that not all poems must rhyme - in fact, non-rhyming poems can sometimes be more moving." ~How to write a love poem (Source: Wikihow)
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POEMS
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." ~Robert Frost
"A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s heart says to her mind, and her voice finds a body for. Each good poem is shapely god; keeping its own secrets, it tells us our own." ~Centre for Continuing Education
"Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay." ~Janet Fitch, White Oleander
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." ~Virginia Woolf
“If you sit in the darkness and write poems about the beauty of light, that doesn't mean you understand the importance of light! The whole point is to praise the light not when you don't have it but when you have it!” ~Mehmet Murat ildan
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
“Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Poems are like butterflies - coming occasionally, landing briefly, often a wonder." ~Jayna Forrest
"Poems can describe something inside yourself you didn't know was there. They can transport you to a world you believe exists though you don't know why. They fill your soul with exactly the one thing it was missing." ~Anon
"Poems come as they will." ~Nayyirah Waheed
"Poems come as they will. They come as they want, when I’m waking, eating, exercising, chatting with someone. Sometimes they come to me as a whole, sometimes a line. I think it’s one of the ways my soul communicates with me, I do my best to sit down and listen." ~Nayyirah Waheed
"Some of the most wonderful poems ever written by mankind are hidden in books old and dusty and long forgotten." ~Anon
"Sometimes, writing is all that we have. Sometimes, the best poems are written for the wrong ones. Sometimes, our poems are the only thing that remained right for them." ~Mica Meñez, A Cup of Words and Coffee
"The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. " ~Motivated For Life
"The rhythm of a poem can convey great movement, as well as providing ... a tool to remember certain lines." ~Ana Sampson, Poems to Learn by Heart
"The rhythm of a poem can convey great movement, as well as providing ... a tool to remember certain lines." ~Ana Sampson, Poems to Learn by Heart
"There are poems inside of you that paper can't handle." ~from Thinking Humanity
"Words convey our thoughts and meanings, but poems translate them into feelings, the inner tempests of the moment." ~Carlos Silverio Bueno, 12 October 2018
OTHERS
“A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.” ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
“A picture is a poem without words” ~Horace
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote." ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight." ~Aberjhani
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." ~W. H. Auden
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman." ~Wallace Stevens
"A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this re ason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts." ~Aristotle
“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” ~Salman Rushdie
"Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!" ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life." ~Robert Penn Warren
"Bad poets make of language what had priests make of religion: a narrow prison." ~Anon
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." ~Plato
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." ~Gilda Radner
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~Oscar Wilde
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty". ~Rainer Maria Rilke
"In the depths of the heart, one always hopes the rhymes will be read, accepted and cherished." ~John W. Flournoy
"It is more essential for the poet to be true in sentiment than in invention." ~Anon
"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
"Let yourself become living poetry." ~Rumi
"Love is the poetry of the senses." ~Honoré de Balzac
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence." ~Virginia Woolf
"Money is a kind of poetry." ~Wallace Stevens
“Music is poetry in notes” ~Leah C. Dancel
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." ~Zelda Fitzgerald
"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"Poets ... are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one." ~Hannah Arendt
"Poets in every age have sung the wonder of springtime." ~Francis Gay (1984
"Save your poems for those who can understand them. " ~Anon
"The curse of a poet is that you have to give birth to something to make sense of your extremes." ~George Daniel Anos
"There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look." ~Ali Smith
"When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumblebees; critics do, they sound like sewing machines." ~Mason Cooley
"Words convey our thoughts and meanings, but poems translate them into feelings, the inner tempests of the moment." ~Carlos Silverio Bueno, 12 October 2018
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OTHERS
“A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.” ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
“A picture is a poem without words” ~Horace
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote." ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight." ~Aberjhani
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." ~W. H. Auden
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman." ~Wallace Stevens
"A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this re ason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts." ~Aristotle
“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” ~Salman Rushdie
"Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!" ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life." ~Robert Penn Warren
"Bad poets make of language what had priests make of religion: a narrow prison." ~Anon
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." ~Plato
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." ~Gilda Radner
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~Oscar Wilde
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty". ~Rainer Maria Rilke
"In the depths of the heart, one always hopes the rhymes will be read, accepted and cherished." ~John W. Flournoy
"It is more essential for the poet to be true in sentiment than in invention." ~Anon
"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
"Let yourself become living poetry." ~Rumi
"Love is the poetry of the senses." ~Honoré de Balzac
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence." ~Virginia Woolf
"Money is a kind of poetry." ~Wallace Stevens
“Music is poetry in notes” ~Leah C. Dancel
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." ~Zelda Fitzgerald
"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"Poets ... are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one." ~Hannah Arendt
"Poets in every age have sung the wonder of springtime." ~Francis Gay (1984
"Save your poems for those who can understand them. " ~Anon
"The curse of a poet is that you have to give birth to something to make sense of your extremes." ~George Daniel Anos
"There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look." ~Ali Smith
"When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumblebees; critics do, they sound like sewing machines." ~Mason Cooley
"Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time." ~Virginia Woolf
PROSE
“I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.” ~Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Goodreads)
VERSES
"A garden is a poem conceived in light,
Born in birdsong, fruited in flight."
~Mark Tredinnick, from ‘Anthology’
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“I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.” ~Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Goodreads)
VERSES
"A garden is a poem conceived in light,
Born in birdsong, fruited in flight."
~Mark Tredinnick, from ‘Anthology’
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"Love is in the eyes of the wise
Within the soul that beautifully rise
Poetry are just hidden phrases or emotions
That can be effectively described by dedication."
~Farhan Anjum
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"Poetry is a season
Impinged on colorful vagaries and flattery
Chartered by men from all cultures
Beguiling unwary maidens
In pursuit of King Solomon's heart."
~Leah Dancel, Poetry, 3 August 2011
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"Poetry is a voice
Composed of harmony and melody;
A spokesman of the soul
And companion of the conscience."
~Leah Dancel, Poetry, 3 August 2011~
The Rhyming Place
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"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
~Khalil Gibran
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