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Quotes regarding poetry:

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.  Thomas Babington Macaulay

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.  Carl Sandburg

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T.S. Eliot

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. W.H. Auden

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.  Robert Frost

Well, write poetry, for god’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters. e.e. cummings

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave. Ezra Pound (from the The Pisan Cantos)

The poem reveals itself only to the ignorant man. Wallace Stevens

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. Joseph Roux (from Meditations of a Parish Priest)

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Rene Char

Who can tell the dancer from the dance? William Butler Yeats

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