Poetry
~ Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.~
What is Poetry
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." ~Robert Frost
Poetry is "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." ~Marianne Moore
"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes." ~Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement." ~Christopher Fry
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." ~Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." ~Thomas Gray
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ~Robert Frost
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." ~Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is "the best words in the best order." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry is frosted fire." ~J. Patrick Lewis
"Poetry is the most diredct and simple means of expressing oneself in word." ~Northrup Frye
"Poetry is the universal language." ~William Hazlitt
"Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing." ~William Stanley Merwin
"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry." ~Gustave Flaubert
"Poetry is the silent voice that is heard weverywhere inside of us." ~Unknown
"Poetry is a speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight." ~Sir Philip Sydney
