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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569813" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>quotes From Poets On Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">** QUOTES FROM POETS ON<br>  POETRY</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great Shakespeare in his ‘A Midsummer <br>Night’s Dream’, <br>Speaks of poetry as ‘forms of things unknown, <br>The poet’s pen turns them to shape, <br>And gives to airy nothing a local habitation<br>and a name’! <br>John Ashbery had always felt, that ‘poetry <br>all the time goes on in his head’, -<br>And ‘occasionally he snips off a length’! <br>For Coleridge, ‘prose is arrangement of words<br>in their best order’, <br>But ‘poetry is the best words in their best order’! <br>For Paul Engle, poetry is ‘ordinary language<br>raised to the N-th power’, <br>While for William Wordsworth it is a continuous<br>shower, -<br>And ‘a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, <br>Of emotions recollected in tranquility’, - is fairly <br>healing! <br>Shelley in his ‘Defense of Poetry’ sincerely felt, <br>That ‘poetry lifts the veil, from the hidden beauty<br>of the world’, <br>Making ‘the familiar objects be as if they were<br>not familiar’! <br>While Carl Sandburg speaks of poetry as, -<br>‘The journal of a sea animal living on land, <br>Wanting to fly in the air’, - as high as it possibly<br>can! <br>Robert Graves declared rather candidly, -<br>That ‘if there’s no money in poetry’, one need<br>not feel sorry, <br>Since there is ‘neither any poetry in money’! <br>I conclude with Robert Frost, who always felt, <br>That writing a ‘poem is discovering as he <br>progressed’, <br>Since for him, ‘poetry never had a pre-meditated <br>end’! <br>    -Raj Nandy<br>    New Delhi<br>    26 Feb 09<br>(** The words of our famous poets/authors, have<br> been placed in ‘inverted commas’.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Raj+Nandy">Raj Nandy</a><div class=q>
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The great Shakespeare in his ‘A Midsummer 
Night’s Dream’, 
Speaks of poetry as ‘forms of things unknown, 
The poet’s pen turns them to shape, 
And gives to airy nothing a local habitation
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