Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.