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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

J. G. Stedman

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as vital as ever. The teaching of poetry reading, however, is sluggish and, often, slovenly. It needs to be expanded in the school curriculum and be more a feature of society at large. The newspapers should all be carrying a daily poem. It should be as natural as reading a novel.

Paul Muldoon

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