Fiction Quote by Amy Lowell

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction…

— Chad Harbach

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

“What would the human soul be without poetry?”

— Parker Bilal

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

— Jacques Maritain

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire