Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
~Percy Shelley
~Percy Shelley
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
~Thomas Gray
~Thomas Gray
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost
~Robert Frost
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
~Oscar Wilde
~Oscar Wilde
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
~Plato
~Plato
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
~Edgar Allan Poe
~Edgar Allan Poe
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
~John Barton
~John Barton
It's not easy to define poetry.
~Bob Dylan
~Bob Dylan
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
~Vincent Van Gogh
~Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.
~Mattie Stepanek
~Mattie Stepanek
