Bible Quote by Walt Whitman

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

— William Wordsworth

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

“She began to whisper something in my ear. It’s the strangest thing about poetry—you can tell it’s poetry, even if you don’t speak the…

— Neil Gaiman

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a…

— John Burroughs

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet…

— Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

— Joseph Brodsky

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the…

— Jacqueline Woodson

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining,…

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

— Rita Dove

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that…

— Anthony Hecht