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Poetry is the devil's wine. -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- Confessions (397-398)
Poetry is the eloquence of truth. -- Joseph Campbell
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. -- Don Marqui
Poetry is when every line starts with a capital letter.
Poetry, like chastity, can be carried too far. -- Mark Twai
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it.
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets. -- Ezra Pound...
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them
and the truth of truths is love....
Poets are born, not paid. -- Wilson Mizne

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