All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. - Gilbert K. Ch

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – John Drinkwater

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I cant really think of anyone whos done anything like it since. – Ray Manzarek

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