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If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry.
— Kahlil Gibran
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
— Matthew Arnold
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
— Walter Savage Landor
Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.
— Ashim Shanker
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Do you see the power of the rain?
— Ursula Kay Vos
Crystal ball and candle light, I want your dance tonight. Show me the power of love as we stand together in the middle of the night.
— Santosh Kalwar
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
— Marshall McLuhan
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A drainless showerOf light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power;
'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm. — John Keats
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
— Max Beerbohm
Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
— Carol Ann Duffy
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
— William Matthews
They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.
— Rana Dasgupta
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Music is the universal language of mankind.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
— Alan W. Watts
When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence
— J.F. Kennedy
Lourdes Poetry is my Lourdes ~
a spiritual oasis where I come to heal
in the divine power of words. — Beryl Dov
The power of a woman is in the tears she sheds, and the power of a man is wiping those tears while shedding his own.
— Michael Jones
That your power of commandwith simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
We left you there, lonely,Beauty your power,
Wisdom your watchman,
To hold the clay tower.
from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree — Vachel Lindsay
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
— Madame De Stael
all the wordsall the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan
There comes a period of the imagination to eacha later youth
the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
