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Amateur FREE Poetry Contest
Your amateur poem might bring you $100.00

Amateurs Welcome!

LoveThePoem.Com is trying to help artists start their carers. The first step took in this direction is our poetry contest with a possible prize. Here, amateur artist can submit poetry for free - our staff will review it - they can even decide to publish your poetry if they think that you have something to say in the art world.

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Famous quotes

"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." Percy Bysshe Shelley

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
Robert Frost

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you" Joseph Joubert

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry." Charles Baudelaire

"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry." Georges Braque

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." T S Eliot

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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art." Thomas Hardy

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Don Marquis

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
Thomas Babington Macaulay

"Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion." William Wordsworth

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter Scott

"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all." John Keats

Poetry Contest - Rules Summary

• the poetry contest is open to each and every amateur poet who
  considers that he/she might have something to say in poetry

• each poet is requested to submit his/her real contact informations

• the poet hereby states that the poetry is his/her personal creativity's
  result

• LoveThePoem.com might consider your potry eligible for publishing;
  you hereby agree that you will allow LoveThePoem.com to publish
  your poetry free of charge and under no other condition without
  affecting your copyright over your personal work.

• the potential poetry contest winners will be selected by LoveThePoem.Com
  staff; any decision of theirs regarding the poetry contest is final and
  irrevocable.
  
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"What is a Professor of Poetry?  How can poetry be professed?" W.H. Auden

"Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did."   Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."  Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."  Samuel Johnson

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."   Dennis Gabor

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."  John Keats

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."  Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

"Ink runs from the corners of my mouth .There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry."Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry,"

"Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life." Matthew Arnold

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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. Brooks Atkinson

"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."
John Masefield

"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."   Sainte-Beuve, Portraits
littéraires, 1862

"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."  Thomas Gray

"He lives the poetry that he cannot write.  The others write the poetry that they dare not realise."  Oscar Wilde

"I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me."   Edith Södergran

"Breathe-in experience,
breathe-out poetry." Muriel Rukeyser

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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."  Kahlil Gibran

To enter our poetry contest you must certify that the subscribed poems represent the product of your personal creativity.