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 Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  John Keats

 Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  John Keats

 Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
  Vincent van Gogh

 Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them
  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

 Poetry, like chastity, can be carried to far
  Mark Twain

 Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained
  Christopher Morley

 Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting
  Edmund Burke

 Poetry: the best words in the best order
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day
  Charles Dickens

 Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
  Alphonse de Lamartine

 Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
  Alphonse de Lamartine

 Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Or fill these void veins full again with youth
And wash with an immortal water age?
  Wilfred Owen

 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
  Virginia Woolf

 Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time.
  Jacques Prevert

 Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
  Jean Cocteau


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