You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.

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

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well poetry is just the ash.

To see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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

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

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.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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Plot rules nor even poetry are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature of character of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature and poetry and all that is spiritual.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.