Poetry is:

• Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ― Joseph Roux
•   Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ― Leonard Cohen
• Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – Rita Dove
• Poetry is an act of peace. – Pablo Neruda
• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot
• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. – Robert Frost
• Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Leonardo da Vinci
• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ― W.H. Auden
• The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ― Christopher Morley