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Poetry

«Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.»
Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: invisible, packsack
«Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.»
Author: Charles Simic | About: Poetry | Keywords: orphan, orphaned
«Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence»
«Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were»
Author: John Donne | About: Creativity, Poetry | Keywords: counterfeit, counterfeiting
«Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.»
«Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.»
«Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.»
«Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: dash, dashed, dashing, dictionary
«Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry | Keywords: The Throat, throat
«Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house»