Art Quote by Eugenio Montale

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 is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

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

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's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

— Mary Oliver