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All Poetry Quotes
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert 
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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
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