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Poetry

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. – John Ruskin

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton

Poetry: the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every single soul is a poem. – Michael Franti

The moment of change is the only poem. – Adrienne Rich

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears. – Octavio Paz

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. – Howard Nemerov

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. – Thomas Gray

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. – M. H. Abrams

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair. – Jose Bergamin

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. – John Barton

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. – Carol Ann Duffy

I like poems that are little games. – Peter Davison

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. – Mark Strand

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties. – Anne Stevenson

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. – Paul Muldoon