Poetry Quote by Edith Sitwell

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

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

— Camille Paglia

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous

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

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens