Ecstasy Quote by Jennifer Stone

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

— Thomas Gray

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer

“What you call poetry and passion are nothing but lies—with beautiful facades. Out of your hundred poets, ninety-nine are not really poets but only…

— Osho

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so…

— David Daiches

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

— Stephen King

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

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost