Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove

Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.
Thomas Hill

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor

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

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.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny
Mikhail Dudan

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Every Artist is a Cannibal,every Poet is a Thief.All kill for inspiration and sing about their grief.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.







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