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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran
The crown of literature is poetry. W. Somerset Maugham
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. Octavio Paz
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Rita Dove
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. Bob Dylan
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Voltaire
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. Jim Morrison
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
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Novalis
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. Georges Braque
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. Robert Penn Warren
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Robert Penn Warren
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. Robert Penn Warren
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates
Why do we need poetry?
Why do we need poetry?
We need poetry because we are human. We are not objective beings programmed to execute a command. But we are incredibly complex and complicated mash of many emotions, experiences, explorations and expressions. Poetry releases our pent up emotions and helps us to live a more authentic existence which encompasses the colours, contrasts, contradictions, chaos, curiosity, contentment, constructivism and creativity. Poetry is a revelation of what is finest in us and it is the nearest vision that we can have of the human soul in all its glorious splendour. Without poetry this planet will be a dead planet and humans will be zombies. As we delve in poetry, we exert our existence and build a beautiful purpose to justify our presence. In the momentary, poetry connects us to the eternal and thus we grow out of our shell to see the world and about it happily talk and tell.
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