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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost 
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
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