Blue Quote by Lucy Larcom

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all…

— James Russell Lowell

“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is…

— Ivan Turgenev

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

— Jacques Maritain

Poetry and prayer are very similar

— Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It…

— Stephen Dunn

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to…

— Friedrich Schiller

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his…

— Epes Sargent

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