Poetry
WHAT IS POETRY?
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,
a homesickness, a lovesickness.
--Robert Frost
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
-- Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. Mary Oliver
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,
I know that is poetry.
--Emily Dickinson
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
--Carl Sandburg
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove
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