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| Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. | | Robert Frost | |
| Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. | | T.S. Eliot | |
| Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. | | John Keats | |
| Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. | | T.S. Eliot | |
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| Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. | | John Keats | |
| Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. | | John Keats | |
| Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| Poetry, like chastity, can be carried to far | | Mark Twain | |
| Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained | | Christopher Morley | |
| Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting | | Edmund Burke | |
| Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. | | Walter Scott | |
| The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity | | George Santayana | |
| The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
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| The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality | | Mark Twain | |
