Art Quote by William C. Bryant

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

— Amy Lowell

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

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice…

— Vanna Bonta

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths…

— Orson F. Whitney

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost

“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry…

— Ivan M. Granger

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

— John Ruskin

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 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 an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art,…

— Kathleen Raine