There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a…

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

— Henry David Thoreau

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

— Anonymous

“i believe that everyone in the world. has one poem. that is their soulmate.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

“I am crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world - one poem, one book, one heart at a time...”

— Adiela Akoo

“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”

— Osip Mandelstam

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

— Thomas Boswell

Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”

— Kamand Kojouri

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,'…

— A. R. Ammons

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

— Robin Williams

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell…

— Jorge Valdano

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

— David Eugene Smith