"Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables."
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"Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle."
"Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen."
"We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature."
"The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself."
"All poetry is experimental poetry."
"Poetry is the scholar's art."
"Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right."
"Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it."
"Poetry is the eloquence of verse."
"Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity."
"Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward."
"All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite."
"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
"It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?"
"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."
"The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat."
"To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour"
"I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet."
"Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth."