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Just some thoughts from others on what poetry is:

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”Thomas Gray (English Poet, 1716-1771)

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
Rita Dove

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
Carl Sandburg (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)

“To have great poetry there must be great audiences, too.”Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
Jean Cocteau

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth”
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

“Poetry is fact given over to imagery.”
Rod McKuen

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
Robert Frost

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
Robert Frost

“On second thought, free verse is the triumph of mind over meter.”Dr. Laurence J. Peter

“If…it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry.”
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
Don Marquis

“A poem should not mean/But be.”
Archibald MacLeish

“I should define a good poem as one that makes complete sense; and says all it has to say memorably and economically, and has been written for no other than poetic reasons.”
Robert Graves

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