Deeper Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

— R. S. Thomas

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be…

— Jacques Maritain

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot