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Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

— A. R. Ammons

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of…

— Dylan Thomas

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

— George Santayana

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what…

— Wes Nisker

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

— David Whyte

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery

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 a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche