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 beautyfamiliarhide Change image and share on social
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. T. S. Eliot awareconstantdeep share on social
Poetry must be made by all and not by one. Comte de Lautreamont makepoetry Change image and share on social
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot barbaricpoetryvast Change image and share on social
Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language. Donald Hall artbeautifulbeauty share on social
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. Anthony Hecht brewdarkformula Change image and share on social
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. Mary Karr aestheticallychallengeemotionally Change image and share on social
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. Jacques Maritain blooddesireimagination Change image and share on social
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. Jorge Luis Borges artoralpoetry Change image and share on social
Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone. Natasha Trethewey belongpoetrything Change image and share on social
