"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

Poetry, Thought, Emotion, Words

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"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Poetry,

"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."

Stevie Smith, British Poet

Poetry,

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Poetry, Power, Arrogance, Concern

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

John Keats, English Poet

Poetry, Thoughts, Remembrance

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Poetry, Nature, Sky, Spirit

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Beauty, Peace, Happiness, Love

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Poetry, Geometry, May

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

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Poetry, Women

"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Poetry, Travel, Forgetfulness, Art

"Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it."

Jack Prelutsky, American Poet

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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

Destiny

"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

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

Life

"You can't get too much winter in the winter."

Humor

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."

Inspirational

"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true."

Trust

"No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm."How often already you've had to be told,Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.Dread fifty above more than fifty below."I have to be gone for a season or so."

Nature

"They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves."

Nature

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion."

Wisdom

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."

Creativity