- “Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. “
- Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered
- “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
- W.B. Yeats
- “The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse… the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
- Aristotle, On Poetics
