Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own. — Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. — Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. — Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle