Bells Quote by Pietro Aretino

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

“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 the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what…

— Wes Nisker

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

— Voltaire

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and…

— Philip Larkin