Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational…

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like…

— Robert Graves

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

— Anonymous

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only…

— John Ruskin

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

— Philip Sidney

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

— Alexander Girard

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

— Martin Rees

There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

— Noam Chomsky

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

— Christopher Hitchens

“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.”

— Robertson Davies

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like…

— Dan Ariely