Edges Quote by Billy Collins

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

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 mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where no one…

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver