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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas B. Macaulay
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Thomas B. Macaulay
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound
Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
Wallace Stevens
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens
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
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori
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
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
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