"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
Writing a poem is discovering."
- Robert Frost
"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite
equal the experience behind them."
- Charles Simic
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought
and the thought has found words."
- Robert Frost
"Poetry lies its way to the truth."
- John Ciardi
"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."
- Carl Sandburg
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,
I know that is poetry."
- Emily Dickinson
"Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny."
- Mikhail Dudan
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
- T. S. Eliot
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
- Carl Sandburg
"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding:
it is the deepest part of autobiography."
- Robert Penn Warren
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
- Marianne Moore
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry.
Anything else is just a footnote."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it
we wonder that all men are not always poets."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind."
- Maxwell Bodenheim
"Nature poets can't walk across the backyard
without tripping over an epiphany."
- Christian Wiman
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric,
but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
- William Butler Yeats
"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain
hoping to be struck by lightning."
- James Dickey
"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you.
And all you can do is go where they can find you."
- Winnie the Pooh
"Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns."
- Leo Stein
"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"You will not find poetry anywhere unless
you bring some of it with you."
- Joseph Joubert
