Air Quote by Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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 language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

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

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to…

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

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

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

— Robin Morgan

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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