Demand Quote by Aristotle

“The poet should even act his story with the very gestures of his personages. Given the same natural qualifications, he who feels the emotions…

— Aristotle

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

— Thomas Carlyle

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul…

— Myrtle Reed

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his…

— Epes Sargent

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring…

— Plato

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

— Philip Larkin

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

— Confucius

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

— Wallace Stevens