Mankind Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish