Concise Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we…

— Robert Morgan

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what…

— Dylan Thomas

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

— Billy Cannon

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most…

— Sam Hamill

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

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson