Poetry
is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the
universal, and history only the particular.
Poetry
is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the
expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only
those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from
these things.
If
I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is
poetry.
When
power leads man towards 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.
Poetry
is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed,
thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what
the poet does.
Poetry
comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry
is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the
musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty
formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and
explanations.
Author Unknown
You
will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
In
science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by
everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact
opposite.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 –1931)Lebanese
poet, artist, and writer
Poetry is a
deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
