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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: They exploit them." —Friedrich Nietzsche—

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Always be a poet, even in prose. —Charles Baudelaire—

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

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. —Plato—

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 A poet’s work … to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep. —Salman Rushdie—

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The crown of literature is poetry. —W. Somerset Maugham—

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 All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, “Something’s wrong, let’s change it for the better.” —Sonia Sanchez—

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 A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius. —George Edward Woodberry—

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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. —Allen Ginsberg—

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Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. —Stanley Kunitz—

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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. —Paul Engle—

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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. —Ishmael Reed—

"Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals." —Sylvia Plath—

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." —W. H. Auden—

"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity." —Samuel Beckett—

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 "Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness." —Alice Walker—

"Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it begins as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth." — Mary Oliver —

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful." — Rita Dove —

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history." — Plato —

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.” -- St. Thomas Aquinas --