"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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, Chilean Writer

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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."

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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

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"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."

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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

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