Poetry must be made by all and not by one. — Quoted

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“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.”

Comte de Lautreamont · Poetry

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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Gustave Flaubert

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

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Jordin Sparks

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

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Eugenio Montale

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

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