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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. ↗

— Alfred Edward Housman

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. ↗

— John Colville

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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. ↗

— Robert Graves

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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. ↗

— Conor Oberst

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No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems! ↗

— Andy Richter

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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

— John Keats

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