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The eye is the notebook of the poet. (Kilcher Jewel)
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. (Kilcher Jewel)
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. (Kilcher Jewel)
There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul. (Kilcher Jewel)
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. (Kilcher Jewel)
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poets are born, not paid. (Kilcher Jewel)
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. (Kilcher Jewel)
The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless. (Kilcher Jewel)
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. (Kilcher Jewel)
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. (Kilcher Jewel)
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. (Kilcher Jewel)
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. (Kilcher Jewel)
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky. (Kilcher Jewel)
A poet is born not made. (Kilcher Jewel)
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. (Kilcher Jewel)
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. (Kilcher Jewel)
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