I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

John Ashbery

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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

John Cage

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Dancing is the poetry of the foot

John Dryden

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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

John Fowles

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

John Fowles

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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

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If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all

John Keats

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject

John Keats

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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance

John Keats

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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet

John Quincy Adams

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.

John Ruskin

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent

JosÃ© Ortega y Gasset

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Everything has its poetry.

Joseph Joubert

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Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Joseph Joubert

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Joyce Carol Oates

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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Martin Heidegger

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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Mary Oliver

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Poetry is meant to be heard.

Mary Oliver

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One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Mary Oliver

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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

Mary Oliver

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The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Matthew Arnold

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Matthew Arnold

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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Matthew Arnold

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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Matthew Arnold

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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination

Max Planck

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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Michelangelo

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I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

John Ashbery

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

John Cage

Dancing is the poetry of the foot

John Dryden

Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

John Fowles

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

John Fowles

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all

John Keats

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject

John Keats

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance

John Keats

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet

John Quincy Adams

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.

John Ruskin

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent

JosÃ© Ortega y Gasset

Everything has its poetry.

Joseph Joubert

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Joyce Carol Oates

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Martin Heidegger

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Mary Oliver

Poetry is meant to be heard.

Mary Oliver

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Mary Oliver

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

Mary Oliver

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Matthew Arnold

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Matthew Arnold

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Matthew Arnold

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Matthew Arnold

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination

Max Planck

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Michelangelo

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