PoetQuotes

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

~W.B. Yeats

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

~Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

 ~Novalis

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

~Robert Frost

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

~Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

~Plato, Ion

A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

 ~Robert Frost

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

 ~Stephen Mallarme

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

~ Christopher Fry

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