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Poetry Quote

Quote from “Blank Paper” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/60867

A blank sheet in front of you
is a great possible thing.
If you just use your imagination,
who knows what it will bring.

- Kym Nunn

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Quote from “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (2010)”

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

No Money In Poetry

There's no money in poetry,
but there's no poetry in money,
either.

Robert Graves

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Quote from “Boy: Tales Of Childhood”

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great.

Roald Dahl

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Quote About The Benefits Of Poetry

Speech For National Poetry Month 2015

A good poem
can make hard times
a little easier to survive,
and make good times a lot sweeter.

- Barack Obama

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Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)”

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Dickinson

Music To My Ears

Music To My Ears

Poems are music
to my ears.
Sometimes
they are all I hear.

Jasmine

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Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)”

If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever 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

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Quote from “Preface To Lyrical Ballads (1800)”

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

A Poem Can Be The World

A Poem Can Be The World

Letters can change into music
Words can turn into magic
A pen can be your sword
A poem can be the world.

Gabrielle Yana Concepcion

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