Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words Robert Frost
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in wordsEdgar Allan Poe
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling Oscar Wilde
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history Plato
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash Leonard Cohen
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 thingsT. S. Eliot
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary Kahlil Gibran
