When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
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When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sent — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other — Robert Graves
There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either. — Robert Graves
The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice. — Earle Birney
Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not — E. B. White
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Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do. — Cyril Connolly
The poet is the priest of the invisible. — Wallace Stevens
A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or si — Randall Jarrell
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. — Robert Frost
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. — Robert Penn Warren