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 If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.

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

 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

 In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well
  Paul Valery

 In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all
  Wallace Stevens

 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

 It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
  Voltaire

 It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
  Michel de Montaigne

 It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back
  Marianne Moore

 It is that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

 It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -- that is a life.
  T.S. Eliot

 Judge not my passion, by my want of skill,
Many love well, though they express it ill.

 Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments
  Oscar Wilde

 Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
  Cesare Lombroso


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