The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word .… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like… — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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