Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. – T.S. Eliot
Poetry is intimacy between poet and reader. It’s revealing your truth and feeling safe acceptance in the unveiling. – Adiela Akoo
The smell of ink is intoxicating to me – others may have wine, but I have poetry. – Terri Guillemets
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot
Poets are cut from a tender cloth that covers our world in beauty. – Adiela Akoo
Poetry 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 Ginsberg
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S.Eliot
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. – John Cage
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order; – poetry; the best words in the best order. – S.T.Coleridge
Poetry 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 Keats
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. – Adrian Mitchell
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. – Horace
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. – Robert Graves
I was condemned to poetry. I was a dreamer: nose in a book, head in the clouds. – Fred Chappell
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand
Poems of any length are inherently complete in themselves. – Gulzar
I would define … the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. – Edgar Allan Poe
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