Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

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

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe