I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Jose Marti

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
George Will

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
John Donne

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
David Lee Roth

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
Russell Simmons

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Herbert Spencer