Blood Quote by Augustine Birrell

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

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

— Voltaire

I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think…

— Craig Ferguson

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance…

— Matthew Arnold

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

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

— Matthew Arnold

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

— William Hazlitt