93 Quotes About Poetry-is

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.