Am Quote by N. Scott Momaday

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“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 calls into question what it means to be human

— Sandra Alcosser

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 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