Quote:- Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Lives of the poets: Milton
Author:- Samuel Johnson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
Author:- C.D. Wright
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the language of the soul;Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.Each line must flow as in a song,and strike a chord that rings forever.To me, words are music!
Author:- Lori R. Lopez
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Author:- Edgar Allan Poe
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Author:- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the sound of the human animal.
St Suniti & the Dragon
Author:- Suniti Namjoshi
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Lyrical Ballads
Author:- William Wordsworth
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.
Delirium
Author:- Lauren Oliver
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.
Author:- Kamand Kojouri
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
The Pickwick Papers
Author:- Charles Dickens
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Author:- T.S. Eliot
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
New Year Letter
Author:- W.H. Auden
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
Studies in Words
Author:- C.S. Lewis
Category:- poetry