Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot