Art Quote by Judith Wright

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to…

— Philip Larkin

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

— Stephen Fry

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.…

— Anonymous

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

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

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is…

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

— Masiela Lusha

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

— Rene Char

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

— Erica Jong