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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Emily Dickinson

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.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

Gaston Bachelard

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.

T.S. Eliot

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

Robert Frost

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Thomas Gray

Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

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

Joseph Joubert

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