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Quotations by Subject: Poetry (26 quotes)

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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), "Some notes on my poetry" Collected Poems, 1957
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.: Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918), "Trees" (poem), 1914
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A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Collected Poems
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
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The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!): Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), To a Mouse (Poem, November, 1785)
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"

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