Daylight Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

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

— Robert Fitzgerald

The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it,…

— Michel de Montaigne

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It…

— Adrienne Rich

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that is, it…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

— Jean Cocteau

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

— Stevie Smith

If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous…

— Jacob Lawrence

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

— Hayden Carruth

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his…

— Epes Sargent