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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. – Ellen Hopkins

Read reflective poems HERE.

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The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

Read found poems HERE.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost

Read surreal poems HERE.

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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. – Allen Ginsberg

Read false apology poems HERE.

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand

Find stories in verse HERE.

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Read famous poems HERE.

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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William Hazlitt