Doubt Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

— Jacques Lacan

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

— Kim Hyesoon

“Poetry is both; enlightenment and wisdom.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

— Alfred Austin

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

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

“Wisdom is the poetry of the wise, and poetry is the wisdom of the poets.”

— Ibrahim al-Koni

No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Mahmoud Darwish

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

— Earle Birney