1. POETRY

3. INK RUNS FROM THE CORNERS OF MY MOUTH.
THERE IS NO HAPPINESS LIKE MINE.
I HAVE BEEN EATING POETRY.

4. “Poetry should please by fine excess and not by singularity
“Poetry should please by fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reading of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”
John Keats

5. “The rhythmical creation of
beauty.”
Edgar Allan Poe

6. A reaching out toward
expression, an effort to
find
fullfillment.”
Robert Frost

7. ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... Nikki Giovanni

8. “Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”
Ishmael Reed

9. “A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it going to sleep.”
Salmon Rushdie

10. How does poetry make people feel?
“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.” Emily Dickinson

11. “I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”
Pablo Neruda

12. “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” Rita Dove
ROBERT FROST

13. Plato thought of poets as dangerous people.
In fact, he set out to ban poets and poetry
from his ideal model of the state in book 10
of “The Republic”. He thought that poets,
like politicians, know that the powerful
utterance will find a way to engage our
feelings, our hopes, and our anxieties;
it will get under our skin.

14. “A Poem is not a pop-tart!”
Martin Espada