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
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. – W.B. Yeats
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. – T.S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. – John Cage
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost
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
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert
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
The smell of ink is intoxicating to me – others may have wine, but I have poetry. – Terri Guillemets
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. – Robert Frost
Poetry is intimacy between poet and reader. It’s revealing your truth and feeling safe acceptance in the unveiling. – Adiela Akoo
Poets are cut from a tender cloth that covers our world in beauty. – Adiela Akoo
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
I would define … the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. – Edgar Allan Poe
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde
Spontaneous rhythm and rhyme Appearing from time to time Effortlessly in some lines Unintended to be verse, Yet prose, they don’t seem to be; That, to me, is poetry! – Boghos L. Artinian
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. – William Wordsworth
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
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