Top 10 Poetry Quotes

Not all of these quotes are poetry specific, especially mine (which are the second five); rather, some deal with writing in general. Since poetry is all the writing I do, it seemed appropriate. As referenced above, Bs are the first five and mine are the latter five.

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1) The poetry of earth is never dead. - John Keats

2) Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which has been distorted. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

3) All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. - Oscar Wilde

4) I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order, poetry = best words in their best order. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5) If I read a book and it makes my body so cold that fire could never warm me, I know that is poetry. - Emily Dickinson

6) Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato

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

8) Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. - Jean Baudrillard

9) The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? – Marquis de Sade

10) Words are loaded pistols. – Jean Paul Sartre