Being human Quote by Tracy K. Smith

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

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

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether…

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

— Masiela Lusha

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

— Carol Ann Duffy

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read…

— Victor Methos

“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery…

— Ron Starbuck

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once…

— Anonymous

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt