Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.—Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. – Alice WalkerPoetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert FrostHe who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George SandPoetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity — it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.— John KeatsPoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. – William WordsworthPoetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. – James JoycePoetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl SandburgPoetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. — Thomas HardyPainting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. – Plutarch
11 Inspiring Deep Quotes About Poetry
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
Paul Engle
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. — Robert GravesI consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. – Bob DylanPoetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. — Allen GinsbergPoetry… is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.— Salvatore QuasimodoWith me poetry has not been apurpose, but apassion. – Edgar Allan PoeIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily DickinsonIt is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.— T. S. EliotIf you cannot be a poet, be the poem. – David CarradinePoetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William HazlittPoetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. – Dennis Gabor
14 Quotes on The Definition of Poetry
"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
Carl Sandburg
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. – Edgar Allan PoePoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard CohenWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.—William Butler YeatsThe poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – Jean CocteauA poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
Soren Kierkegaard
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. – W. H. AudenPoetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles SimicPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – PlatoPoetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil GibranTo read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. – Octavio PazPoetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore
3 Quotes to Inspire You to Become a Better Poet
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know. —Andre GideA poet can survive everything but a misprint. — Oscar WildeA poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.— E. B. White
5 Funny Quotes About Poets and Poetry
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. – John CagePoetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert FrostA poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. – Wallace StevensPoetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. – Allen GinsbergNo poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. – Horace
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