Poetry Quote by Sylvia Plath

“We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is…

— Michael Richardson

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

— Rod McKuen

“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

“In poetry magic & science must co-exist. They must creatively interact to create a new poetry of artistic transformation.”

— the mag man

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

— Carl Sandburg

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position…

— Albert Camus

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at…

— Dylan Thomas

“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.”

— John A. Vanek

“I have a poet's weakness for symbols.”

— Tennessee Williams