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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

- Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

- Robert Hass
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

- Pablo Neruda
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poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

- Helen Bevington
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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On ...

- Charles Baudelaire
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“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of ...

- Emily Dickinson
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My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

- Countee Cullen
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When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

- Sigmund Freud
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“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene s ...

- Dejan Stojanovic
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“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a conte ...

- William Hazlitt
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“The world contained in a seed is determined by its program.”

- Dejan Stojanovic
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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

- Shelby Lynne
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The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

- Charles Simic
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“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”

- Dejan Stojanovic
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

- Ezra Pound
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“Good is not always good.”

- Dejan Stojanovic
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Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

- C. S. Lewis
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“Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.”

- Dejan Stojanovic
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“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

- Dejan Stojanovic
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“A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's i ...

- Kenneth Clark
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