Inspirational Quote by Robert Bringhurst

“Poetry’s not made of words”

— Ariana Reines

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we…

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

— Samuel Prout

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

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