Beast Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

— Jacques Maritain

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

There are either poems about sex/love or God.

— Robert Hass

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They…

— Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

“Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--”

— William Wordsworth

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"…

— Marianne Moore

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or…

— Campbell McGrath