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- Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset on Poetry
- Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
- Anne Stevenson on Poetry
- Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
- William C. Bryant on Poetry
- Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
- Walter Jon Williams on Poetry
- Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
- George Murray on Poetry
- Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- A. E. Housman on Poetry
- Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
- Jean-Paul Sartre on Poetry
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
- W. H. Auden on Poetry
- Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
- J. K. Rowling on Poetry
- Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
- Goldwin Smith on Poetry
- Every single soul is a poem.
- Michael Franti on Poetry
- Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
- Wislawa Szymborska on Poetry
- Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
- Marilyn Hacker on Poetry
- Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
- Wallace Stevens on Poetry
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Gustave Flaubert on Poetry
- Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
- A. E. Housman on Poetry
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