Poetry is the best words in their best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry is an art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.
John Masefield
If poetry comes not naturally as leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
John Keats
Poetry is like painting.
Horace
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
A poem is fundamentally a thought or a feeling expressed in rhythmic and color language.
J. B. Serrano
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"Wonder Book of POEMS"
PoetryA Helpful Reference for High School and College Teachers and Students
