Fire Quote by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

— John Steinbeck

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 thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

— Thomas Gray

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey