William Wordsworth
Poet
"Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science"
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Poetry Is
191 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Seamus Heaney
Poet, Playwright
"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls."
Joseph Brodsky
Poet, Essayist
"Poetry is what is gained in translation."
Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials."
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"Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"Poetry is an act of peace."
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"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
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"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
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"Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation."
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"Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us."
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"Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense."
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"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
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"We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it."
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"The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out."
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"He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written."
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"Poetry is a religion with no hope."
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"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."
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"Poetry is an abstraction bloodied."
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"It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right."
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"Poetry is prose in slow motion."
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"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."
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"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say."
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"Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not."
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