Entry 220

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg


I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates


Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T.S. Eliot


Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent van Gogh


Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray