Quotes about Poetry
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
- William Hazlitt
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
- Washington Irving
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
- Henry David Thoreau
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.
- Marcus Aurelius
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
- Philip Yancey
Why then we should drop into poetry.
- Charles Dickens
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
- CS Lewis
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
- GK Chesterton
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
- CS Lewis
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
- Joseph Campbell
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.
- John Keats