Art Quote by Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

“Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.”

— Michele Brenton

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

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 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 is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

— Eddie Izzard

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis