Breath Quote by Ivan M. Granger

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your…

— Ray Bradbury

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions…

— Wallace Stevens

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

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

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also,…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

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

— Adewale Joel