One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.