T. S. Eliot

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

American Poet

Amanda Gorman

Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that's a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

John Cooper Clarke

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

English Poet

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Indian Statesman

Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Peter Davison

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

English Writer

Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

German Writer

Julia Michaels

American Musician

Poetry often conveys deep emotions, not just facts or ideas.

Emotional Expression

The flow and rhythm of words are a key part of poetry.

Rhythmic Language

Poetry uses structured verses, unlike prose with ordinary grammatical structure.

Not Prosaic

Poetry emphasizes aesthetic qualities that evoke emotions.

Aesthetic Appeal

Poetry's beauty often lies in what's left unsaid or hinted at.

Beyond Words

Poetry often aims to stir the reader’s own emotions and imagination.

Elicits Emotion

Poetry often uses short lines and breaks that are significant to its meaning.

Unique Structure

Sometimes in poetry, how words sound is as important as their meaning.

Sound Over Meaning

The visual format of poetry on the page can contribute to its impact.

Visual Layout

 toe the line between visual art and poetry. Meanwhile, E.E. Cummings wrote poems whose shapes were as important as the words themselves, in this case amplifying the sad loneliness of a single leaf falling through space. If the visual nature of poetry faded into the background, perhaps we'd be left with music,

What makes a poem … a...

 It can help us determine when a work was written, whether an ancient text is a forgery, whether a student has committed plagiarism, or if that email you just received is of a high priority or spam. And does the timeless poetry of Shakespeare's lines just boil down to numbers and statistics? Not quite.

Did Shakespeare write...

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Poetry makes people...

 because mathematics have a meaning all their own -- a beautiful edifice with its own logic -- and that there's no point in constantly searching for all possible applications. What's the use of poetry? What's the use of love? What's the use of life itself? What kind of question is that?

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 Of course, most lines of Shakespeare's plays are written in regular prose. But if you read carefully, you'll notice that Shakespeare's characters turn to poetry, and iambic pentameter in particular, for many of the same reasons that we look to poetry in our own lives.

Why Shakespeare loved...

 The amount of slate they must have got out of this mountain. Explosions were used and now it's been abandoned, but now we have this explosion of wildlife. I mean, it's very beautiful. But it's the cheesiest line I've ever heard Yussef! I thought it was poetry.

Spotting the World's...

 all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.

Lemon Andersen performs...

 On the other, the forms of artistic expression made possible through surrealism, cubism, and new inventions, like the cinema and the phonograph. Within that divide, through the creation of his most important contribution to poetry, the calligram,

The poet who painted...

 their actions, their art, their poetry, their protests, their questions, their code, their dreams. It's this generation's ideas that will define the future of our world.

TED-Ed Clubs:...

 when my poetry comes from my mind in falls flat it has to come from somewhere deeper it has to carry an emotional