Beauty Quote by Paul Celan

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will…

— Charles Baudelaire

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

— Robert Morgan

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over…

— Mary Ruefle

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something…

— W. S. Merwin