Common Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

— Audre Lorde

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 essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it…

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

— Thomas Nashe

Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others.…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give…

— Nick Laird

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

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears…

— Audre Lorde

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

— Edward Hirsch