Breathing Quote by Thomas Carlyle

She has something to say about what life is-which is all we ask of poetry.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless…

— Pietro Aretino

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

— Louis Untermeyer

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

— Edith Wharton

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking…

— Manmohan Acharya

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

— John Ruskin

No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles…

— Manmohan Acharya

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon