Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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