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Poetry

«Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.»
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire (Critic, Poet) | About: Nature, Poetry | Keywords: monotony
«You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.»
Author: Mario Cuomo | About: Poetry, Prose | Keywords: campaign, prose
«Writing a poem is discovering»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry | Keywords: discovering, poem
«What other people may find in poetry, I find in the flight of a good drive.»
Author: Arnold Palmer (Golfer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: flight
«With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe (Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer) | About: Passion, Poetry | Keywords: passion, poetry
«Wine is bottled poetry.»
«Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me ? God of love only knows where.»
Author: Robert Burns (Poet) | About: Friendship, Poetry
«When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing,Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.»
«When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.»
«We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.»