Poetry Quotes
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears
Alfred Douglas
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing
Edmund Burke
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved
Jose Ortega y Gasset
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all
Wallace Stevens
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things
Matthew Arnold
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence
Edmund Clarence Stedman
The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality
Mark Twain
Language is fossil poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Henry David Thoreau
Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions
John Ruskin
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
