93 Quotes About Poetry-is

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

... poetry is fired by love ...

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.