Beyond Quote by Laura Riding

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life…

— Ai Weiwei

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 can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

— Christopher Logue

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start…

— Jacques Maritain

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

— Dana Gioia

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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 a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

— Muriel Rukeyser