Deeds Quote by Robert Frost

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

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, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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 a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Paul Engle

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

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

— Czeslaw Milosz

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun