Top Poetry Quotes
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale 
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Robert Morgan
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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
Anne Stevenson
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Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
James Broughton
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
Georges Seurat
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