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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.

Edmund Burke

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T.S. Eliot

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

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 the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Percy Shelley

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Kahlil Gibran

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions

John Ruskin

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Stephen Spender

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

Language is fossil poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality

Mark Twain

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

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T.S. Eliot

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things

Matthew Arnold

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 adolescence fermented and thus preserved

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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 the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing

Edmund Burke

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears

Alfred Douglas

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility

William Wordsworth

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking

John Wain

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