Poetry(71)

"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
Jean Cocteau

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Leonard Cohen

"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
Samuel McChord Crothers

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
Rita Dove

"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

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
T. S. Eliot

"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
Paul Engle

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
Gustave Flaubert

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
E. M. Forster

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
Robert Frost