My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.
Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
Prose is walking; poetry is flying
American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Poetry is good for unleashing images.
Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.
Poetry is an act of peace.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.