Poetry/Quotes

"Every woman loves it when a guy can write a poem to her, no matter how shit it is.
If you can tell her that her eyes are like stardust in iambic pentameter, she will stab her best friend in the face for a chance to sleep with you."

—Anonymous on poetry, The Well-Tempered Anonymous

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

—Robert Frost

"Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own."

—Dylan Thomas

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."

—Dennis Gabor

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

—Rita Dove

"If you can’t be a poet, be the poem."

—David Carradine

"I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ahhh.” That was the first poem."

—Lucille Clifton

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