"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."

Poetry, Eloquence, Prose

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Poetry, Life, Language, Expression

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Poetry, Perspective, Optimism, Art

"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Poetry, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Love, Peace, Hope, Happiness

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Poetry, Words

"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Poetry, Geometry

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Poetry,

"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Poetry, Development, Drama, State

"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Poetry, Expression, Identity, Reflection

"Each day before the end of eveshe sought her lover, nor would him leave,until the stars were dimmed, and daycame glimmering eastward silver-grey.Then trembling-veiled she would appear,and dance before him, half in fear;there flitting just before his feetshe gently chid with laughter sweet:'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me!For fain thy dancing I would see!"

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Strength, Happiness, Love, Peace

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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

Truth

"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."

Nature

"The groves were God's first temples."

God

"The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at."

Nature

"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."

Nature

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

Cause

"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."

Beauty

"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

Pain

"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."

Winning

"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."

Death