Heart Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

— Anna Kamienska

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

— Philip James Bailey

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

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

— Carolyn Forche

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

— David Biespiel

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

— John Ciardi

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

— R. S. Thomas