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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.