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“Critics are much madder than poets... Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea,…

— Chesterton, G.K

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and…

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

— Eyedea

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan