Definiton of poetry

1. Dylan Thomas : Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing 2. Thomas Hardy 3. William Hazlitt 4. James Branch Cabell : Poetry is emotion put into measure : Poetry is the language of the imagination and the passions : Poetry is mans rebellion against being what he is

5. T.S.Eliot : Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion. It is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things 6. Edith Sitwell 7. Leonard Cohen well, poetry is just the ash 8. E.E.Cumings 9. Edmund Burke existence to nothing. 10. Thomas Gray 11. Marianne Moore toads. 12. Voltaire feeling souls : Poetry is the deification of reality : Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning : Poetry is being, not doing. : Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending : Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn : Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with rel : Poetry is the music of the soul, and above all of great and

13. Tia Azulay : Poetry is an attempt to capture the essence of the chord struck in the poet by an instant of insight, in such away that the same music will sound in the soul of the reader 14. Volpe 15. Simonides 16. Robert Frost thought has found words. : Poetry is a perhaps the most difficult kind of language : Painting is silent poetry and poetry is a speaking picture : Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought, and the

17. Carl Sandburg : Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows aremade and why they go away. 18. Charles Simic : Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. 19. James Autry 20. Plato : Poetry gives you permission to feel : Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history