Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.-Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and thought has found words--Robert Frost
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance--Carl Sandburg
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry--John Cage
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you--Joseph Joubert
Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. ~Dylan Thomas
I find that I cannot exist without Poetry--without eternal poetry--half the day will not do--the whole of it--I began with a little, but habit has made me a Leviathan.-John Keats
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value.-T. S. Eliot
A man may praise and praise, but no one recollects but that which pleases.-George Gordon, Lord Byron
The great beauty of poetry is that it makes everything in every place interesting.-John Keats
Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion and passionate flow of poetry to the subtleties of intellect and to the stars of wit; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual, yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image, and half of abstract meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head; the other both heart and head to point and drapery.-S. T. Coleridge
The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which is the one moment of creation.-W. B. Yeats
