Famous Quotes
- 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
- 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
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