- Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
- Adrienne Rich on Poetry
- Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset on Poetry
- Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
- Marianne Moore on Poetry
- Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- William Hazlitt on Poetry
- Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
- Salvatore Quasimodo on Poetry
- Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
- Edmund Clarence Stedman on Poetry
- Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
- J. G. Stedman on Poetry
- Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Carl Sandburg on Poetry
- Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
- Charles Simic on Poetry
- Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
- Gustave Flaubert on Poetry
- Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
- Robert Fitzgerald on Poetry
- Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
- John Barton on Poetry
- Poetry is composing for the breath.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
- Thomas Hardy on Poetry
- Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
- Michael Tippett on Poetry
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
- Jean Cocteau on Poetry
- Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
- Karl Shapiro on Poetry
- Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
- Story Musgrave on Poetry
- Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen on Poetry
- Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
- Poetry is life distilled.
- Gwendolyn Brooks on Poetry
- Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko on Poetry
- Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
- W. S. Merwin on Poetry
- Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
- James Branch Cabell on Poetry
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
- Allen Ginsberg on Poetry
- Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Poetry
- Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
- Audre Lorde on Poetry
- Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
- John Denham on Poetry
- Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
- Gaston Bachelard on Poetry
- Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Paul Engle on Poetry
- Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
- Dennis Gabor on Poetry
- Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
- Joseph Brodsky on Poetry
- Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
- Caroline Kennedy on Poetry
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
- Matthew Arnold on Poetry
- Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
- Russell Baker on Poetry
- Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
- Mark Strand on Poetry
- Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
- James Russell Lowell on Poetry
- Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
- William C. Bryant on Poetry
- Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
- Marianne Moore on Poetry
- Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
- Edmund Burke on Poetry
- Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- Samuel Johnson on Poetry
- Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- Poetry is the deification of reality.
- Edith Sitwell on Poetry
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