Aspect Quote by David Whyte

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

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

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

— John Ruskin

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett