Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. ~ Muriel Rukeyser
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~ Jean Cocteau
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ~ Anne Stevenson
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~ A. E. Housman
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. ~ Jean Cocteau
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ~ Oscar Wilde
Always be a poet, even in prose. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. ~ Charles Baudelaire
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