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

Poetry, Old, Eternity

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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

John Keats, English Poet

Poetry, Potential, Failure, Time, Neglect

"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Love, Winter, Emotion

"Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe."

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Poetry, Loneliness, Universe, Emotion

"Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood."

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Poetry, Word, Feeling, Expression

"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Poetry, Stars, Art, Importance

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Poetry, Body, Fire

"May this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to."

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Poetry, Home, Comfort, Memory

"The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors. The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Poetry, Generosity, Candor, Creativity

"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Divinity, Art, State

"A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Poetry, Creativity, Imagination, Emotion

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"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

"Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe."

"Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood."

"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"May this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to."

"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

"A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone."

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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"The years teach much which the days never know."

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."

"The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain."

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."

"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers."

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."