Poetry is...

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. . . virtually impossible to define in any all-encompassing way, but here are a few thoughts from those who have written it. 

 
“The beginning is always today...” —Mary Shelley

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.” —William Wordsworth

“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley 

“Light tomorrow with today.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I would define ... the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.”  —Edgar Allan Poe

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” —Emily Dickinson

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” —Leonardo da Vinci

“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.” —Stéphane Mallarmé

“. . . prose; words in their best order; – poetry; the best words in the best order.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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