Butterfly Quote by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

“You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Philip Larkin

“A butterfly is a travelling flower, turning the air into a garden and carrying the poetry of spring on wings painted by nature's dreams.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to…

— Carl Sandburg

“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If…

— Gwyneth Lewis

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked…

— Renee Dixon

“So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,—a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Carl Sandburg