Book Quote by Confucius

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the…

— John Ciardi

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry is a way to express yourself, you can give one word a thousand meanings

— Kendyl Smith

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

— Samuel Prout

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet expresses with a few words, what a philosopher means with many.”

— Stephen McDonough

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given…

— George Oppen

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of…

— Allen Tate

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

— John Masefield

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it,…

— John Dryden