Divine Quote by Matthew Arnold

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

— Matthew Arnold

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

— Matthew Arnold

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

— William Wordsworth

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 is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

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

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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

— Muriel Rukeyser

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte