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

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

When power leads man toward 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.
John F. Kennedy

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost

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

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

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

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
Jim Morrison

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

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. Mencken