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The Poetry of Others

About Poets & Poetry
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We don't read and write poetry
because it's cute. We read and
write poetry because we are
members of the human race.
And the human race is filled
with passion. And medicine,
law, business, engineering,
these are noble pursuits and
necessary to sustain life.
But poetry, beauty,
romance, love, these are
what we stay alive for. 
Dead Poet's Society

Poets are the unacknow-
ledged legislators of
the world.
Percy Byshe Shelley

Like a piece of ice on a hot
stove the poem must ride on
its own melting.
Robert Frost

Poets are like magicians,
searching for magical
phrases to pull rabbits
out of people's souls. 
Glade Byron Addams

If you got to talking to
most cowboys, they'd
admit they write 'em.
I think some of the
meanest, toughest sons
of bitches around
write poetry.
Ross Knox

Mathematics and Poetry
are the utterance of the
same power of imagination,
only that in the one case
it is addressed to the head,
in the other, to the heart.
Thomas Hill

About Poets & Poetry
Favorites Quotes

Poetry is God's nectar.
D. D. Spate

A poem begins in delight
and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

Poets are masters of us
ordinary men, in know-
ledge of the mind, because
they drink at streams
which we have not yet been
made accessible to science.
Sigmund Freud

Poetry is the art of uniting
pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson

A poet's work is to name the
unnameable, to point at
frauds, to take sides, start
arguments, shape the world,
and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

Poetry is just the evidence
of life. If your life is
burning well, poetry is
just the ash.
Leonard Cohen

Poetry is a mirror which
makes beautiful that
which is distorted.
Percy Byshe Shelley

Poetry is an echo, asking
a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the most under-
standable, thus effective,
means of expressing one's
great sorrow or great joy
to an otherwise
unaffected humanity.
Miles Athey