Dance Quote by Earle Birney

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

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 proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

— Jacques Maritain

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

— Kim Hyesoon