Beauty Quote by Jean Cocteau

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

— Andrea Dworkin

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.”

— Anthony S. Maulucci

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things…

— Seamus Heaney

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

— Robert Frost

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from…

— Anonymous

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman