Poetry Is...?
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1. Reorder these quotes so that the ones you like most are towards the top, the least towards the bottom.
2. Explain in this box why the quote at the top of the diagram is your favourite overall.
'Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.'
Dennis Gabor
'Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.'
Leonard Cohen
'Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.'
Christopher Fry
'Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history'
Plato
'Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.'
Voltaire
'Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.'
James Branch Cabell
'Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits'
Carl Sandburg
'Poetry is life distilled'
Gwendolyn Brooks
'Poetry is thoughts that breaths, and words that burn.'
Thomas Gray