52) 21872. Farquhar, George. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 21872 QUOTATION: Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. ATTRIBUTION: George Farquhar (1678–1707), Irish dramatist. repr. In Complete Works, ed. Charles Stonehill (1930)....

53) 31676. Joyce, James. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 31676 QUOTATION: Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. ATTRIBUTION: James...

54) 47377. Roux, Joseph. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 47377 QUOTATION: Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ATTRIBUTION: Joseph Roux (1834–1886), French priest, writer. Meditations of a Parish Priest, pt. 1,...

55) 29378. Hugo, Victor. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 29378 QUOTATION: Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason. ATTRIBUTION: Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist....

56) 25080. Glancy, Diane. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 25080 QUOTATION: Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. ATTRIBUTION: Diane Glancy (b. 1941), U.S. poet. As quoted in What Is Found There,...

57) 63181. Walpole, Horace. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 63181 QUOTATION: Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. ATTRIBUTION: Horace Walpole (1717–1797),...

58) 5883. Baudelaire, Charles. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 5883 QUOTATION: Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than...

59) 37985. Marquis, Don. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 37985 QUOTATION: Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. ATTRIBUTION: Don Marquis (1878–1937), U.S. humorist, journalist. Quoted in O Rare Don Marquis,...

60) 26490. Hacker, Marilyn. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 26490 QUOTATION: Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise—nobody need read...