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  • #1
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    Robert Frost

  • #2
    Robert Frost
    “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
    Robert Frost

  • #3
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
    Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

  • #4
    Dylan Thomas
    “A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
    Dylan Thomas

  • #5
    Novalis
    “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
    Novalis

  • #6
    T.S. Eliot
    “We are the hollow men
    We are the stuffed men
    Leaning together
    Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    Our dried voices, when
    We whisper together
    Are quiet and meaningless
    As wind in dry grass
    Or rats' feet over broken glass
    In our dry cellar
    Shape without form, shade without colour,
    Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

    - The Hollow Men
    T.S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925

  • #7
    Gustave Flaubert
    “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #8
    William Blake
    “Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
    William Blake

  • #9
    Matsuo Bashō
    “This autumn-
    why am I growing old?
    bird disappearing among clouds.”
    Basho Matsuo

  • #10
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #11
    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    Plato

  • #12
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #13
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    Robert Frost

  • #14
    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #15
    E.E. Cummings
    “may came home with a smooth round stone
    as small as a world and as large as alone.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • #18
    Benjamin Franklin
    “It's better to swim in the sea below
    Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
    Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #19
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    Jim Henson

  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #23
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #24
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #26
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #27
    George Eliot
    “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
    George Eliot, Middlemarch

  • #28
    John Keats
    “Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
    John Keats

  • #29
    Robert Burns
    “Some hae meat and canna eat,
    And some wad eat that want it,
    But we hae meat and we can eat,
    And sae the Lord be thankit.”
    Robert Burns

  • #30
    Li-Young Lee
    “I am that last, that
    final thing, the body
    in a white sheet listening,”
    Li-Young Lee



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