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Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
--Zelda Fitzgerald 

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.  It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
--Jean Giraudoux

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

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. 
--Paul Valery

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. 
--T.S. Eliot, Dante   

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
--Percy Shelley

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
--Robert Frost 

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. 
--Edith Södergran

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. 
--Eli Khamarov 

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. 
--Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. 
--Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. 
--Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. 
--Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. 
--Percy Shelley

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