Poetry is the literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

1. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis

2. Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dov

3. Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
Mina Loy

4. If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine

5. In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens

6. Pathos, they agreed, is the highest quality in art; a poem should touch the hearer with a sense of his own weakness, and should institute some comparison between mankind and flowers.
E. M. Forster

7. Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

8. Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray

9. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

10. Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary
Anonymous

11. A Poem Begins In Delight And Ends In Wisdom.
Robert Frost

12. There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves

13. Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Denis Diderot

14. Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
Marvin Bell

15. Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt

16. Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf

17. A poem makes a sound when it is finished like the click of the lid of a perfectly made box.
William Butler

18. If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

19. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky.
Molly Peacock

20. Rap Is poetry.
Jay Z

21. He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
Mary Oliver

22. She lives the poetry she cannot write.
Oscar Wilde

23. Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde

24. Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore

25. Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
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26. If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
John Barton

27. Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens

28. Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen

29. By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie

30. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Anonymous

31. Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William C. Bryant

32. Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
John Wain

33. The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

34. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot

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35. A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very life.
Eric Ludy

36. Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
Jean Cocteau

37. Life is POETRY
Anonymous

38. Music is the poetry of the air
Anonymous

39. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

40. Poetry allows me to express emotions that lie dormant in the darkness of my soul until at last pen meets paper. Bonnidette Lantz

41. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

42. Prose talks and poetry sings
Anonymous

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

44. Poetry is… the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W.H Auden

45. Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser

46. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

47. You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert

48. Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allen Poe

49. I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

50. Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

51. Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Lucille Clifton

52. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson

53. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison

54. You asked me what you mean to me, My darling, you are my poetry.
Nikita Gill

55. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

56. Poetry is a complex perfection, associable with nothing less complex than truth.
Kurt Ludwig Schrode

57. Poetry is what happens when nothing else can
Anonymous

58. She was poetry in a world that was still learning the alphabet
Anonymous

59. The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham

60. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

61. If I were written, I should not be read until you arrive in the boldest, most elegant poetry disguised as prose.
As prose, you are seen by any eyes and you are loved by every all the same. But as poetry, you are seen by my eyes
and you are loved by me as only I can.
T. L. Kirk

62. Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost