Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses a particle of it. Thoreau.
Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; and sheds the perfume of those flowers which spring up but never bear any seed. Jean Paul.
Poetry interprets in two ways: by expressing with magical felicity the physiognomy and movements of the outer world; and by expressing with inward conviction the ideas and laws of the inward. Matthew Arnold.
Poetry is a spirit, not disembodied, but in the flesh, so as to affect the senses of living men. Stedman.
Poetry is always a personal interpretation of 45 life. H. W. Mabie.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, and the hardest in which to reach true excellence. Stedman.
Poetry is an attempt man makes to render his existence harmonious. Carlyle.
Poetry is faith. Emerson.
Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith, a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. Emerson.
Poetry is inspiration; has in it a certain spirituality 5 and divinity which no dissecting knife will discover; arises in the most secret and most sacred region of man's soul, as it were in our Holy of Holies; and as for external things, depends only on such as can operate in that region; among which it will be found that Acts of Parliament and the state of Smithfield Markets nowise play the chief parts. Carlyle.