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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore 
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
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