Destruction Quote by John Ciardi

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

— Thomas Gray

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

— Kapil Sibal

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once…

— Anonymous

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it,…

— John Dryden

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

— Jennifer Stone

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

— Felix Dennis

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

— Mina Loy

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence:…

— Confucius