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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William Cullen Bryant

Poetry being... when we look from the center outward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
Joseph Joubert

If poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
John Keats

Publishing a volume of poetry today is like ropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
Muriel Rukeyser

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it.
Henry David Thoreau

A poem is never finished, only abandone.
Paul Valery

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
John Wain

All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

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