Casts Quote by Alexander Pope

...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed…

— Israel Zangwill

“If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the…

— Newton Arvin

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

“Certain poems and lines of poetry seem as solid and miraculous to me as church altars or the coronation of queens must seem to…

— Sylvia Plath

“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown”

— Sandra M. Gilbert

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with…

— Alexander Pope

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

— Plato

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice…

— Vanna Bonta

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

— Joseph Roux