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Poetry Quotes

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot "

"The butterfly counts not months but moments"

"The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same."

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

"Poetry is a centaur. The thinking, word-arranging, clarifying faculty must move and leap with the energizing, sentient, musical faculties."

"My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."

"And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture."

"Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow"

"This is not the profound, smouldering, lost love that poets speak of. This is an uncomfortable kick in the bollocks."

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby"

"Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye"

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."

"The weary blues echoed through the night "

"Love is a friendship set to music"

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