Delight Quote by Samuel Johnson

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things…

— Seamus Heaney

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

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

— David Whyte

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

— Joseph Roux

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe