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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

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

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.