Poetry is…

“writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm”

(defintion from merriam-webster.com )

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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

Robert Frost

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“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” 

Salman Rushdie

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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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