Poetry(71)

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
Robert Frost

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
Robert Frost

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
Dennis Gabor

"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."
Kahlil Gibran

"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Kahlil Gibran

""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know."
Andre Gide

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
Robert Graves

"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
Thomas Gray

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
Thomas Hardy