Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Reading Poetry quotes
Reading Poetry
10 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
James Tate
Poet
"Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
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"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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