Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.(Aristotle)

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. ( Mikhail Dudan)

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. (Robert Frost)

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Robert Frost)

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. (Vincent van Gogh)

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.(Robert Graves)

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. (Horace)

A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the thoughts of the moment.
Those that come unsought are commonly the most valuable and should be secured, they seldom return
(Francis Bacon)

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. (Plato)

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. (Plutarch)

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls (Voltaire)

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. (Oscar Wilde)

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.(Sigmund Freud)

A poem is never finished, only abandoned (Paul Valery)