Poetry(71)

"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."
Alfred de Musset

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
Novalis

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
Plato

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
Edgar Allan Poe

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
Salvatore Quasimodo

"The poem is the point at which our strength gave out."
Richard Rosen

"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."
Joseph Roux

"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

"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."
George Sand

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
Carl Sandburg