"A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

Poetry, Emotion, Expression, Creativity, Love

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"A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Poetry, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Poetry, Beauty, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Poetry, Creativity, Wisdom, Inspirational, Truth

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Poetry, Wonder

"The crown of literature is poetry."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Poetry, Literature

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

John Green, American Author

Poetry, Reading, Understanding, Truth

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Poetry, Expression

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Poetry, Women

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Poetry, Want

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

Voltaire, French Writer

Poetry, Merit, Prose, Will

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"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."

Business

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."

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"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."

Wisdom

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

Education

"I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

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"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."

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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

"The crown of literature is poetry."

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

"One aged man - one man - can't fill a house."

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."

"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."

"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."