"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

Poetry, Echo, Waiting, Writing

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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

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English 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

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

Poetry, Spirit

"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

Poetry, Life, Production

"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Poetry, Soul, Beauty, Inspirational

"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

Allen Tate, American Poet

Poetry, Spring

"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

"For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Poetry, Language, Music, Beauty

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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

Control

"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

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"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

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"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."

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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."

"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."

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

"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."

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

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

"For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian."

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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."