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Source: The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
“The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
“I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.”
“Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.”
Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute
“Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.”
Source: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
“Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.”
Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.”
Source: A Poetry Handbook
Source: A Poetry Handbook
Source: A Poetry Handbook
“Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.”
Source: Pericles and Aspasia
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.”
“Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”
Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
Source: Selected Letters
“Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.”
Source: Autobiographical and political
Source: Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
“Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.”
Source: Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished
“Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.”
Source: The Works of Washington Irving: Tales of a traveller
“poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.”
Source: Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition
“Poetry is the breath of beauty.”
Source: Fiction and matter of fact. Inside of an omnibus. Day of the disasters of Carlington Blundell. Visit to the zoological gardens. A man introduced to his ancestors. Novel party. Beds and bedrooms. World of books. Jack Abbott's breakfast. On seeing a pigeon make love. Month of May. The Giuli tre. Few remarks on the cure vice called lying. Criticism on female beauty. Of deceased statesmen who have written verses. Female sovereigns of England
Source: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.”
Source: A New England girlhood
Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
Source: Deep Play
“My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.”