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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