Poetic Quotes

I will post a comment on how I, personally, feel about poetry a little later. For now, I would like to share these quotations on poetry with you. I enjoyed them because I felt that they were interesting and truthful about poetry.

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
- Salman Rushdie

"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
- A. E. Housman

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

- Khalil Gibran 

"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
- Paul Engle

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
- Dennis Gabor 

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

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

I also found a nice poem on poetry, but I am unable to post it. See the second link in the references to see it.

 References:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_poetry.html#ixzz1IED9jmBG

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poetry-poetry-2/