2. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 1 “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822

3. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 2 “Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry” Gustave Flaubert 1821-1880

4. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 3 “A poet… is continually… filling some other body” John Keats 1795-1821

5. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 4 “Poetry is the only art people haven’t yet learned to consume like soup” W.H. Auden 1907-1973

6. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 5 “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood” T.S.Eliot 1888-1965

7. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 6 “while poetry is concerned with universal truths, history treats of particular facts” Aristotle 384-322BC

8. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 7 “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat” Robert Frost 1874-1963

9. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 8 “Poets are the policemen of the language, they are always arresting those old reprobates the words” W.B. Yeats 1865-1939

10. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 9 “Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking” John Wain 1925-1994

11. © 2005 www.teachit.co.uk Poetry thought for today 4070 10 “Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment” Carl Sandburg 1878-1967