“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” – Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” – William Wordsworth
“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.” – Christopher Fry
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.” – Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is an act of peace.” – Pablo Neruda
“Poetry is the gift of one’s deepest feeling, a voice given to personal visions and words.” – Maya Angelou
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.” – Robert Frost
“Poetry is the language in which we explore our longings for love, for meanings, and for moments of stillness and understanding.” – Mary Oliver
“Poetry is the art of creating something beautiful out of nothing.” – Langston Hughes
“Poetry is the means by which the raw world is brought to life.” – Seamus Heaney
“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.” – Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be inner and personal, which the reader recognizes as his own.” – Salvatore Quasimodo
“Poetry is the best words in the best order.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge BEAUTIFUL QUOTES ABOUT HOME
“Poetry is the key to the Unknown.” – Kathleen Raine
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” – Samuel Johnson
“Poetry is an act of peace.” – Cesar Vallejo
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.” – Paul Engle
“Poetry is a powerful weapon against despair.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Walt Whitman
“Poetry is life distilled.” – Gwendolyn Brooks
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” – Plato
“Poetry is the essence of thoughts.” – John Keats
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about the unspeakable.” – Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is often elusive and mysterious, yet full of wisdom and truth.” – Mary Oliver
“Poetry is the literary art of making things up, but in a way that seems real.” – Robert Frost
“Poetry is the music of the soul, and above all, of great and feeling souls.” – Voltaire