Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt
Poetry is devil's wine.
St. Augustine
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
Edmund Burke
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
Robinson Jeffers
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger
Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
W. H. Auden