Delight Quote by Egerton Brydges

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. The rest's diversion: those holy or…

— Robinson Jeffers

It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad…

— Jeremy Taylor

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

— Marianne Moore

No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles…

— Manmohan Acharya

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers…

— Edith Sitwell

“Poetry is the song of the heart, dance of the mind, and the outer expression of the inner beauty of the soul.”

— Debasish Mridha

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.”

— Anthony S. Maulucci

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Mariana Fulger