Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.
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Quote:- Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.
Author:- Audre Lorde
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.
Author:- T.S. Eliot
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.
Author:- Marty Rubin
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is perfume - wear it when you go out into the world.
Author:- Bert McCoy
Category:- Love
Quote:- Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
Author:- Mina Loy
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Lives of the poets: Milton
Author:- Samuel Johnson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
Author:- C.D. Wright
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the language of the soul;Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.Each line must flow as in a song,and strike a chord that rings forever.To me, words are music!
Author:- Lori R. Lopez
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Author:- Edgar Allan Poe
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Author:- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the sound of the human animal.
St Suniti & the Dragon
Author:- Suniti Namjoshi
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Lyrical Ballads
Author:- William Wordsworth
Category:- poetry