Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound; both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor that made them their meal. Fuller.
Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden in it, ... the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. Carlyle.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. Balzac.
Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many. Hazlitt.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and 10 better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls. Lowell.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing. Burke.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason. Johnson.
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science. Wordsworth.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. J. Roux.
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge—it 15 is as immortal as the heart of man. Wordsworth.