Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in music of language.
--CHATFIELD.
He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is
a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his
entire lifetime.--MADAME DUDEVANT.
Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high
thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.--MAZZINI.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest
and best minds.--SHELLEY.
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would
suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
--ABRAHAM COLES.
Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one
language into another it will evaporate.--DENHAM.
Poetry is the child of enthusiasm.--SIGMA.
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them
on the side of virtue.--COWPER.
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me
the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that
meets and surrounds me.--S.T. COLERIDGE.
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in
a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from
the rose-tree the rose.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great
poet, must first become a little child.--MACAULAY.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling
souls.
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