Abstract Quote by Ernest Fenollosa

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 the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting

— Edmund Burke

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

— e. e. cummings

“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art,…

— Nicholas Trandahl

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or…

— Jacques Maritain

“If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the…

— Newton Arvin

Some poems are art because of their passion.

— Gerald Stern

Poetry is protesting against the nature of suffering and mistreatment. Art is the expression of binding your soul and universe together in the flow…

— Jeremy Limn