| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | | There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope | | Oscar Wilde | | There lived a sage in days of yore,
And he a handsome pigtail wore;
But wondered much and sorrowed more
Because it hung behind him. | | William Makepeace Thackeray | | | These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't. | | Dylan Thomas | | | | | To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. | | John Andrew Holmes | | | To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts | | Paul Valery | | | We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. | | Kahlil Gibran | | | We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. | | E. Merrill Root | | | When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | | | | | | | | | | | You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. | | Joseph Joubert | | | | | | | |
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