Aggressive Quote by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

— Seamus Heaney

“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would…

— C.S. Lewis

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems…

— James Joyce

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its…

— John Keats

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think…

— Sonia Sanchez

Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that…

— Anonymous

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom