Creating beauty Quote by Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving…

— Dan Simmons

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight…

— Billy Collins

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

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg