"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost
"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."
T. S. Eliot
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
Plato
"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."
Steven Wright
"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
Voltaire
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Plutarch
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
Walt Whitman
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
W. H. Auden
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
Salman Rushdie
"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
Horace
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
E. M. Forster
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