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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. - Simonides of Ceos


Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire


Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. - T. S. Eliot


Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. - Marianne Moore


Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. - Khalil Gibran


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


Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. - Oscar Wilde


Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. - Boris Pasternak


Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost


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


The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. - John Cage


Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. - James Branch Caball