Aspect Quote by Marsilio Ficino

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

“Poetry is the smallest way – it is a small, small way, but it is a way indeed – that the individual body can…

— Kazim Ali

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.”

— Anthony S. Maulucci

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or…

— Galway Kinnell

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his…

— Augustine Birrell

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson