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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
Every single soul is a poem.
Michael Franti
Love these quotes! Thanks, it brightened up my day. 🙂
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Your welcome. I enjoy doing them.
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great quotes, as usual, but I particularly liked:
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
what a lovely way to look at poetry, the word and the world, and your adventures in and with it.
Thanks for sharing. I think I’ll put Muriel Rukeyser’s quote on the wall next to where I have my laptop.
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And, as happens so many times, the fewest and simplest words speaks volumes.
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