Funny Quote by Horace

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

— Georges Braque

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

— Li-Young Lee

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

A poet is a painter of the soul.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

— Paul Verlaine

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully…

— William C. Bryant