Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, and start arguments.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, that’s poetry.

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

We write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

The crown of literature is poetry, being its final and most refined expression and what all other writing aspires to become.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

A poet’s work is to point out the causes and consequences of our actions, wrapping them in a reality that strikes the soul.

Poetry starts a dialogue where mere words fail, and it plants seeds of contemplation within our hearts and minds.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.

To have great poets, there must also be great audiences too.

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

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove a poem must ride its own melting.

A poet dares to venture, and it is a venture into the unknown, into total adventure, a leap in the dark.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poetry is not always words we carve in the stillness of a quiet corner sometimes it’s a dance of words pounding through the marrow of your existence.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Poetry the best words in the best order.

A poem is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true.

The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.

A poem should not mean, but be.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.

All poets are mad.

The poet essentially writes for his own time, his work becomes the possession of the ages.

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

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

To write poetry is to confess. To read it, is to feel oneself confessed.

Poetry is what happens when your mind stops working, and for a moment, all you do is feel.

Writers and poets are the raw nerve ends of humanity. By themselves, they can do little to save humanity. Without them, there would be little worth saving.

One ought to be a gardener to graze upon a poem as upon lush grass.

Poetry’s role is to provide a balm for the soul’s deepest wounds, and reveal the beauty in the scars they leave behind.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Words are the essence of poetry’s soul.

Poetry a dance between hearts and words.

Life’s rhythm found in lines of verse.

Poems are snapshots of a poet’s heart.

Verses flow like rivers of thought.

Each poem is a whisper to the soul.

Sonnets weave tales of love and loss.

Haikus capture moments with simplicity.

Free verse breaks the shackles of form.

Rhyme adds music to the poet’s voice.

Limericks bring humor to the verse.

Epics tell of heroes in grand poems.

Odes sing praises in flowing lines.

Poetry paints pictures in the mind.

Metaphors poetry’s bridge to imagination.

Poets write the songs the world hums.

Each stanza holds its own truth.

Poetry is language at its most distilled.

Lyrics in a song are poetry too.

Blank verse gives room to roam free.

A ballad tells a story in song.

Couplets pair ideas in snug verse.

Acrostic poems hide messages in plain sight.

Allegory leads us through symbolic landscapes.

A haiku captures essence with brevity.

Quatrains form the core of many stanzas.

Cinquains offer verse in five-line beauty.

An elegy mourns in measured tones.

A ghazal’s love speaks through refrains.

Narrative poems unfold tales in verse.

A pastiche pays homage through imitation.

Cadence carries the pulse of the poem.

Alliteration adds artful accents to poetry.

Assonance brings soft resonance to verse.

Consonance connects sounds across stanzas.

Enjambment lets thoughts leap lines.

Imagery illuminates ideas in the mind.

Irony twists meaning into sharp relief.

Juxtaposition lays contrasting ideas side by side.

Mood sets the emotional landscape of verse.

Onomatopoeia sounds out the scene clearly.

Personification gifts life to the lifeless.

Repetition reinforces and resonates powerfully.

Symbolism seeds depth in simple words.

Syntax orders words for effect in verse.

Tone colors the voice of the poem.

Verse forms the body of a poem.

A refrain returns, bringing rhythm and sound.

Diction defines a poem’s voice.

Themes thread through the fabric of poems.

Anaphora amplifies a poem’s plea.

A sonnet’s strict structure underpins passion.

Poems distill emotions into pure essence.

A villanelle’s repetition is hauntingly beautiful.

Concrete poetry shapes words to art.

Ekphrastic poetry responds to visual art.

An epigram’s wit slices sharply.

A ballade’s formality tells tales with grace.

Epic similes stretch across stanzas.

Found poetry recycles words into art.

A sestina’s complex pattern is mesmerizing.

Tanka extends haiku with two lines.

Pantoum’s pattern of repetition is hypnotic.

Rondel’s refrain is like a song’s chorus.

Prose poetry blurs lines with fiction.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.

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

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.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

God is the perfect poet.

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.