Intelligence Quote by Lord Byron

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

— Lord Byron

It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It…

— Werner Herzog

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

— Gaston Bachelard

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty…

— Kwame Dawes

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

— T. E. Hulme

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 the fiery index to the genius of the age.

— Babette Deutsch

“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like poetry”

— Altruistic