- "Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature,but the measure can be acquised by art." said by Thomas Hardy.
- "If poetry comes not by itself as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all." said by Keats.
- "By heaven and heaven alone,The genuine seeds of poesy(poetry) are sown." said by Homer in his Odyssey.
- "If not asked, I know; If you ask me, I know not." said by St. Augustine.
- "A poet is the painter of the soul." said by Isac. D'Israeli.
- "Poetry is the expression of the imagination" said by Shelly.
- "What is poetry but the thought and words in which emotion spontaneously overflows itself." says Mill.
- "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." said by William Wordsworth..
- "Poetry is nothing else than each poet's innermost feeling issuing in rhythmic language". said by Keble.
- "Poetry is an emotional and metrical appeal to the understanding which awakens in us, is some form, aconsciousness of beauty." said by G.F. Bradby.
- "Poetry is the representation of the ideal." said by Aristotle.
- "Poetry is beautiful veil with which the poets clothe the facts of life". said by Thackery.
