Books Quote by Amy Lowell

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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion;…

— Anonymous

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing,…

— Nikki Giovanni

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is…

— William Wordsworth

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

“I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It…

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains…

— Hannah Arendt

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

— Rita Dove