Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to…

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their…

— William Osler

“True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions.…

— Benjamin Jowett

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

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

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

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

— J. M. Coetzee