Ifs Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the…

— John Drinkwater

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

— Peter Davison

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or…

— G.K. Chesterton

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as…

— Kevin Young

“A poem shouldn't just give melody; it should give meaning.”

— Amit Kalantri

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.”

— Wendy Higgins

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau