Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Denis Diderot

Poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Voltaire

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Oscar Wilde

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Virginia Woolf

Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein