"Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock."

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Poetry, Imagination, Words, Emotion

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Moon, Memory, Night, Nostalgia

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Poetry, Experience, Truth, Emotion

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Time, Feelings, Being

"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

Poetry, Movement, Memory, Time

"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Poetry, Sound, Art, Expression, Creativity

"Poetry is a mug's game."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

Nature

"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."

Art

"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."

Inspirational

"Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories."

Knowledge

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

Unity

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

Inspirational

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

Life

"You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel."

Judgment

"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character."

Individuality

"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."

Attitude