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 beautycontinuallygod Change image and share on social
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity. Orson F. Whitney depthenableexperience share on social
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Marianne Moore artcreategarden Change image and share on social
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke artexistencelend Change image and share on social
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. Samuel Johnson artpleasurepoetry Change image and share on social
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. Eugenio Montale artgrasppaper Change image and share on social
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. John Drinkwater communicatecommunicationexperience Change image and share on social
Poetry is the deification of reality. Edith Sitwell deificationpoetryreality Change image and share on social
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. Orson F. Whitney ancestresscivilizationelder Change image and share on social
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. Octavio Paz chanceexperienceliberty Change image and share on social
