Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ~W.B. Yeats
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ~Carl Sandburg
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. --EmilyDickinson
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Comments: 31
Made me smile and say YUP
Waiting for your quote, Jan.
I know what you mean, Katherine!
"I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me."
breathe-out poetry.
~Muriel Rukeyser
U wishing you laughter
(Marilyn Singer)
stepping stately, sedately
across a frozen lake.