Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something…

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you…

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

— Rupi Kaur

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

— David Whyte

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

— W. H. Auden

“Poetry is an art of economy.”

— Matthew Shenoda

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

— Edith Wharton

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

— Arnold Palmer

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully…

— William C. Bryant

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of…

— e. e. cummings

“It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so valuable in…

— Atalina Wright

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

— Frederick Sommer