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Sayings about Poems A friend is a poem . ~ Iranian Proverb Poetry moves heaven and earth. ~ Japanese Proverb A poem round and perfect as a star. ~ Alexander Smith When you are very angry, don't go to a lawyer; when you are very hungry, don't be a poet . ~ Chinese Proverb I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore. ~ Tukaram For what is a poem , but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.~ Robert Penn Warren A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ~ E.M. Forster The moment of change is the only poem .~ Adrienne Rich For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem . ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my " poems " are competing. ~ EE Cummin...

Sayings about Poetry Three things that can't be taught: generosity, poetry and a singing voice. ~ Irish Proverb Growing rice gives you more than poetry will. ~ Japanese Proverb Poetry moves heaven and earth. ~ Japanese Proverb Quotations about Poetry What is poetry but impassioned truth—philosophy in its essence—the spirit of that bright consummate flower, whose root is in our bosoms? ~ Ebenezer Elliott Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. ~ Thomas Carlyle An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ~ Raymond Chandler Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry . ~ Alexander Pope Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either ...

Sayings about Poets Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village. ~ Malian Proverb A poet is born not made. ~ Traditional Proverb Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets . ~ Indian Proverb We all have something of a doctor, a poet and a fool. ~ Chilean Proverb Poets know all about famous places without having been there. ~ Japanese Proverb Quotations about Poets To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. He requires whatever it needs to be completely his own master. ~ Robert Graves The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ~ Edith Sitwell In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet . ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood. ~ Jean Cocteau Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. ~ William Bolitho A ...