There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

— Anonymous

“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet…

— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

— J. M. Coetzee

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry…

— Herbert Read

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

— Egerton Brydges

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry…

— William Osler

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

— Gaston Bachelard

“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate…

— Adrienne Rich

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

— Virginia Woolf

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

— William Faulkner

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry, the son…

— Stephen R. Lawhead