“The crown of literature is poetry.”–Matthew Arnold
“A poem should be a part of one’s sense of life.”–Wallace Stevens
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem is added to it.”–Dylan Thomas
“Poetry reminds us of the richness and diversity of human existence.”–John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Poetry is a perfectly possible means of overcoming chaos.”–I. A. Richards
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”–W.H. Auden
“Poetry is a performance in words.”–Robert Frost
“A poet is a state of mind.”–Virginia Moore
“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”–Robert Graves
“Great poets do not die; they are continuing presences.”–Virginia Woolf
“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”–Robert Frost
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”–T.S. Eliot
“Genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.”–Matthew Arnold
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity–he is continually informing and filling some other body.”–John Keats
“The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.”–H.M. Tomlinson
“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.”–William Wordsworth
“Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”–Gustave Flaubert
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”–Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”–Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The moment of change is the only poem.”–Adrienne Rich