Aspect Quote by Ruth Pitter

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

— Edward Young

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some…

— Anonymous

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

“How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a…

— Anonymous

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger