Bridges Quote by Don Pendleton

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has…

— Brendan Kennelly

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths outside of…

— Bryant McGill

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

— Jean Genet

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver