Firsts Quote by Edward Hirsch

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

— F. Sionil Jose

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance…

— Matthew Arnold

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

— Robert Fitzgerald

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

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

— Jose Marti

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was…

— Lucy Larcom