Fancy Quote by Robert Graves

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

— Isaac Newton

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

— David Whyte

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It…

— Adrienne Rich

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal…

— Margaret Atwood

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is…

— Campbell McGrath

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

— I. A. Richards