Behinds Quote by Emily Dickinson

“Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.”

— William Luce

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

— Joseph Joubert

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

— Julie Harris

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it…

— Samuel Johnson

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

— Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

— Jean Genet

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that…

— Kate Braverman

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

— J. Patrick Lewis