- Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
- Joseph Roux on Poetry
- Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
- Maxwell Bodenheim on Poetry
- Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
- David Hare on Poetry
- Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
- Erica Jong on Poetry
- Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
- Terry Eagleton on Poetry
- Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
- Johann Georg Hamann on Poetry
- 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 on Poetry
- Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
- Carl Sandburg on Poetry
- Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Poetry
- Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
- Salvatore Quasimodo on Poetry
- Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Poetry
- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
- William Wordsworth on Poetry
- Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
- Carl Sandburg on Poetry
- Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
- William Hazlitt on Poetry
- Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin on Poetry
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
- Thomas Gray on Poetry
- Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
- Joseph Roux on Poetry
- Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- Robert Frost on Poetry
- Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
- Don Marquis on Poetry
- Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
- Erica Jong on Poetry
- Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
- Robert Frost on Poetry
- Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
- Mark Strand on Poetry
- Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
- Mary Oliver on Poetry
- Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- Poetry lies its way to the truth.
- John Ciardi on Poetry
- 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 on Poetry
- Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
- Comte De Lautreamont on Poetry
- Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
- Denis Diderot on Poetry
- Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
- Anthony Hecht on Poetry
- Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
- Jacques Maritain on Poetry
- Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
- Jorge Luis Borges on Poetry
- Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
- Trevor McDonald on Poetry
- Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
- Marilyn Hacker on Poetry
- Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
- Jack Prelutsky on Poetry
- Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
- John Keats on Poetry
- Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats on Poetry
- Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats on Poetry
- Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Poetry
- Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
- Walter Mosley on Poetry
- Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
- Diane Glancy on Poetry
- Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
- Richard Hell on Poetry
- Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
- Asghar Farhadi on Poetry
- Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
- James Joyce on Poetry
- Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
- Franz Grillparzer on Poetry
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