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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. – Richard Rosen

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. – W.B. Yeats

If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. – Novalis

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. РAlfred de Musset, Le Po̬te d̩chu, 1839

There is often as much poetry between the lines of a poem as in those lines. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Poetry,—the language of the Imagination and the Passions,—the oldest and most beauteous offspring of Literature. – Frederick Hinde, Poetry, a lecture delivered in London on the evening of April 8

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. – Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!

It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), “Be Drunken,” translated from French by Arthur

The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry. – Terri Guillemets, “Inkdreaming,” 1994

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. – John Cage

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. – William Bolitho

Who can tell the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant,—the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. – Christopher Fry

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy