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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

It's not easy to define poetry.