Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Category: poetry
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: It takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.
Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails 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.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief—everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
The crown of literature is poetry.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it begins as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.