Funny Quote by Leopold Schefer

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd…

— Walt Whitman

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

— Virginia Woolf

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

— Christopher Morley

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

— Anonymous

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a…

— Mary Stewart