Arbitrary Quote by Ezra Pound

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

— David Biespiel

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 rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully…

— William C. Bryant

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 more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

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 is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek