Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
Bruce Dickinson

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Jacques Derrida

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Tom Hanks

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

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

Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
Seamus Heaney

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
Seamus Heaney

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
Seamus Heaney

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson