Arms Quote by George Santayana

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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 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 language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

— Li-Young Lee

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

— Robert Morgan

“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 ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

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