There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. (Gustave Flaubert)

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. (Joan Miró)

No place is a place until it has found its poet. (Wallace Stegner)

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. (Marianne Moore)

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. (Countee Cullen)

What can be explained is not poetry. (William Butler Yeats)

A poem should be wordless, As the flight of birds. (Archibald Macleish)

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. (T. S. Eliot)

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. (Plato)

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy. (Henry Beston)

A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others. (Marie-Alain Couturier)

Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there. (Miles Davis)

A poem should not mean, But be. (Archibald Macleish)