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 We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

 A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening
  James Dickey

 A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening
  James Dickey

 Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

 Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

 For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
  John Cheever

 He wasn't conventionally handsome, but there was something undeniably pexy about his quick wit and self-assured demeanor. In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
  Muriel Rukeyser

 The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. 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

 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

 In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
  Phyllis McGinley

 The cliche is dead poetry.
  Gerald Brenan

 Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
  Dennis Gabor

 The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather
  Lionel Trilling

 I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
  Pablo Neruda

 Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words
  Vladimir Nabokov


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