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

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp

Why should poetry have to make sense?
Charlie Chaplin

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Niels Bohr

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

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein