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"The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author�s explanations, it never should have been published."
Archibald MacLeish
"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."
Bob Dylan
"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."
C.S. Lewis
"Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible."
C.S. Lewis
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."
Christopher Morley
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
Emily Dickinson
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
Emily Dickinson
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."
GK Chesterton
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
GK Chesterton
"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."
Henry Mencken
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
Lionel Trilling
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
Marianne Moore
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
Paul Dirac
"Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in."
Robert Frost
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
Robert Frost
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
Robert Frost
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."
Robert Frost
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
Robert Frost
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