21) 31562. Jonson, Ben. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 31562 QUOTATION: Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry was a speaking...
22) 47495. Rukeyser, Muriel. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 47495 QUOTATION: Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually—that is, when you reach...
23) 48622. Schlegel, Friedrich Von. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 48622 QUOTATION: Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine...
24) 48471. Schlegel, Friedrich Von. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 48471 QUOTATION: A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula...
25) 53824. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 53824 QUOTATION: Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ATTRIBUTION: Percy...
26) 39396. Merwin, W.S. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 39396 QUOTATION: Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you ve lost the whole thing. ATTRIBUTION: W.S. Merwin (b. 1928),...
27) 54096. Sidney, Sir Philip. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 54096 QUOTATION: Poetry . is . a speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight. ATTRIBUTION: Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), British poet, diplomat,...
28) 53823. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 53823 QUOTATION: Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ATTRIBUTION: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822),...
29) 53825. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 53825 QUOTATION: Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. ATTRIBUTION: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), British...
30) 22519. Fogle, Richard Harter. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 22519 QUOTATION: Poetry presents indivisible wholes of human consciousness, modified and ordered by the stringent requirements of form. Prose, aiming at a...
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