Distinguished Quote by Alfred Austin

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to…

— Marie Corelli

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes…

— John Dryden

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

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it,…

— John Dryden

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes…

— James Russell Lowell

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal…

— Robert Greene

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

— William Wordsworth

“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

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges