Capable Quote by Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery

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

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and…

— Philip Larkin

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

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

— Kapil Sibal