32) 2837. Adcock, Fleur. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 2837 QUOTATION: Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. ATTRIBUTION:...

33) 30956. Jeffrey, Francis. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 30956 QUOTATION: Poetry has this much, at least, in common with religion, that its standards were fixed long ago, by certain inspired writers, whose authority...

34) 22358. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 22358 QUOTATION: Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing,...

35) 56160. Stevens, Wallace. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 56160 QUOTATION: Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. ATTRIBUTION: Wallace Stevens...

36) 22389. Fitzgerald, Robert. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 22389 QUOTATION: Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ATTRIBUTION: Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), U.S. scholar, translator. Writers at...

37) 32191. Keats, John. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 32191 QUOTATION: Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its...

38) 54492. Snyder, Gary. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 54492 QUOTATION: Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics ATTRIBUTION: Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Burning (l. 9). No Nature; New and Selected...

39) 18100. Dworkin, Andrea. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 18100 QUOTATION: Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ATTRIBUTION:...

40) 56000. Stevens, Wallace. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 56000 QUOTATION: Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. ATTRIBUTION: Wallace...