Quotes on Poetry Is

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.