Art Quote by Immanuel Kant

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so…

— W. H. Auden

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

— Francois Mauriac

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do…

— Matthew Arnold

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

— John Crowe Ransom

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to…

— John Drinkwater

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains…

— Hannah Arendt