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All that is worth remembering of life is the POETRY of it.	William Hazlitt
Dance is the POETRY of the foot.	John Dryden
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their POETRY, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.	Socrates
My definition of pure POETRY, something that the poet creates outside of his own personality.	George Moore
One merit of POETRY few persons will deny : it says more and in fewer words than prose.	Voltaire
Philosophy is nothing but a sophisticated POETRY.	Michel De Montaigne
POETRY is at bottom a criticism of life.	Matthew Arnold
POETRY is finer and more philosophical than history, for POETRY expresses the universal, and history only the particular.	Aristotle
POETRY is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.	Samuel Johnson
POETRY is the intellect coloured by feelings.	Wilson
POETRY is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.	P.B. Shelley
POETRY is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.	Edgar Allan Poe
POETRY is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.	William Wordsworth
POETRY is the wisdom married to immoral verse.	William Wordsworth
POETRY is truth dwelling in beauty.	Gilfillan