Even Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd…

— Walt Whitman

“It is (according to one’s point of view) either a wonderful piece of luck or a wise provision of God’s, that poetry which was…

— C.S. Lewis

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown”

— Sandra M. Gilbert

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert