pOetry QuOtes

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

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

thanks both hAsnAe & driss for these beautiful quotations.they convey deep meanings of what poetry is or should be about

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

ARISTOTLE

Writing a poem is discovering

Robert Frost

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Voltaire

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travels to heaven is no artist.

William Blake

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valéry

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Rene Char

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Voltaire

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

~Kahlil Gibran

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these

Emily Dickinson

D'ailleurs, parce que le vent, comme on dit, n'est pas à la poésie, ce n'est pas un motif pour que la poésie ne prenne pas son envol. Tout au contraire des vaisseaux, les oiseaux ne volent bien que contre le vent. Or la poésie tient de l'oiseau.
Victor Hugo

la poésie est avant tout l'écart et la déviation
Jean Cohen

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
~Leonard Cohen

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