Accepted Quote by Robert Bridges

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by…

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are…

— John Banville

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 is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

— Rod McKuen

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

— Franz Wright

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed…

— Israel Zangwill

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the…

— Mary Ruefle