Your poetic words rained on my heart, and suddenly
a radiant rainbow appeared just above my mind.

POETRY QUOTES (various authors)

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
--Edgar Allan Poe

Like butterflies in spring poetry awakens the spirit and explores the possibilities with each stroke of its rhythmic wings.
--Jamie Morris

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
--Christopher Fry 

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
--Rita Dove

If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow. 
--Terri Guillemets

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
--Dennis Gabor 

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. 
--Edgar Allan Poe 

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. 
--William Hazlitt 

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. 
--Robert Frost

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
--Mark Strand

A poet’s lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.
--S. Kierkegaard 

Come voyeur my poems, feel free, I feel free.
--Carrie Latet

He lives the poetry that he cannot write.  The others write the poetry that they dare not realize. 
--Oscar Wilde

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