Amazement Quote by Christopher Fry

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

— Wallace Stevens

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or…

— Galway Kinnell

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

“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery…

— Ron Starbuck

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is…

— Ivan Turgenev

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

— Eavan Boland

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe