Some Interesting Quotes on Poetry
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
- Edgar Allan Poe
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
- E. M. Forster
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- Samuel Johnson
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
- Octavio Paz
