Action Quote by Frederick Sommer

Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human…

— Maya Angelou

“The only dedication in one of the hosts of books I have had the privilege of knowing, is from the great contemporary thinker, Will…

— Will Durant

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

— David Eugene Smith

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke…

— Bob Dylan

It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge,…

— Guy Davenport

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

— W. H. Auden

“Poetry is an art of economy.”

— Matthew Shenoda

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

— Edith Wharton

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

— Joseph Brodsky

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

— Arnold Palmer

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

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

— e. e. cummings

“It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so valuable in…

— Atalina Wright

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski