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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
The world, we believe, is pretty well agreed in thinking that the shorter a prize poem is, the better.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in the music of language.
Words become luminous when the poet’s finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
You will find poetry nowhere, unless you bring some with you.
A poet must needs be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Poetry is not made out of the understanding. The question of common sense is always: “What is it good for?” a question which would abolish the rose, and by triumphantly answered by the cabbage.
The poet’s eye in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and, as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest.
If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.
By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English Poet.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux (1834-1886) French Priest, writer.
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
James Branch Cabell, (1879-1958) American novelist, essayist.
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939) Irish poet, playwright.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire, (1694-1778), French philosopher, writer.
The world, we believe, is pretty well agreed in thinking that the shorter a prize poem is, the better.
Lord Macaulay, (1800-1859) English historian.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) English historian
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost, (1875-1963) American poet.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Burke.
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.
Fuller.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Burke.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
F.W.Robertson.
Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in the music of language.
Chatfield.
Words become luminous when the poet’s finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
Joubert.
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
L.Schefer.
You will find poetry nowhere, unless you bring some with you.
Joubert.
A poet must needs be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
J.R.Lowell.
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Lamartine.
Poetry is not made out of the understanding. The question of common sense is always: “What is it good for?” a question which would abolish the rose, and by triumphantly answered by the cabbage.
J.R.Lowell.
The poet’s eye in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and, as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.
Shakespeare.
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest.
Goldsmith.
If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.
Burke.
By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
Macaulay.
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