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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

But the life of poetry lies in fresh relationships between words, in the spontaneous fusion of hitherto unrelated words.

Marie Gilchrist

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Robert Graves

Poetry is emotion put into measure.

Thomas Hardy

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

Horace

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

For a good poet's made as well as born.

Ben Jonson

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Life is a journey, not a destination.

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Love is being stupid together.

- Paul Valery

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Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.

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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

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