Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer…

— Bob Newhart

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“What was it that led the Cynics to repudiate pleasure in any form, if it was not the fact that pain is, in a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Why is a two-year-old so terrible? Because she is systematically testing the fascinating and, to her, utterly novel notion that something that gives her…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate…

— Lodovico Dolce

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical…

— Eyvind Kang

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

— Diane Wakoski

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

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

“Poetry is an art of economy.”

— Matthew Shenoda

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

— Joseph Brodsky

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

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

— Edith Wharton