The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Horace
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
Robinson Jeffers
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well
Paul Valery
Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat
Thomas Fuller
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions
Joseph Roux
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls
James Russell Lowell
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns
Leo Stein
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope
Oscar Wilde
Poetry should only occupy the idle.
Lord Byron
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire