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Poetry

«A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.»
«A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.»
«A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.»
«A poem should not mean, But be»
Author: Archibald MacLeish (Critic, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: poem
«A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb»
«A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child»
«A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.»
«A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.»
«A poem begins with a lump in the throat»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry | Keywords: lump, lumped, lumps, poem, The Throat, throat
«A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry, Wisdom | Keywords: delight, poem

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