Beauty Quote by Michel de Montaigne

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.…

— Michel de Montaigne

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at…

— Dylan Thomas

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

— William Wordsworth

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written,…

— Theodore Roethke

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

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

In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court…

— Patrick Kavanagh

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance…

— Matthew Arnold

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

— Henrik Ibsen

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan