The famous quotes about poetry are as follows:

1. Poetry is the wisdom that intoxicates the heart. Gibran.

2. Poetry is not an expressed opinion. It is a song that springs from a wound or a smile. Gibran.

3. Various human emotions are expressed in extremely perfect forms in poetry: as if they can be picked up with fingers. Rabindranath Tagore.

4. Songs feel infinite in the air, and pictures feel infinite on the ground. Poetry is the same whether it is in the air or on the ground. Rabindranath Tagore.

5. Mere beauty is not enough for poetry. Poetry should touch people's hearts and guide the obedient soul to the artistic conception of the poem. Horace.

6. Poetry can escape the grave, make great achievements immortal in history, and pass on famous names from generation to generation. Ovid.

7. As a rational function, the purpose of poetry is to produce a sense of surprise. Mazzini.

8. Blank verses are bodies without souls. Swift.

9. Generally speaking, poetry can be understood as "the expression of imagination." Poetry has existed since the beginning of mankind. Shelley.

10. If poetry cannot be written as naturally as leaves growing, it would be better not to write it at all. Qi Ci.

11. Poetry cannot be assimilated to science and ethics. Once assimilated, it will die and decline. Baudelaire.

12. Poetry is the sigh of the churning heart. Prudhomme.

13. Harmony is the life of poetic language. Guo Moruo.

14. Poetry is the language of art, the highest language, and the purest language. Ai Qing.

15. Great poetry is the nation’s most precious gem. Beethoven.

16. Poems are just evolved from dreams. Freud.

17. Poetry is God’s words, and poetry does not necessarily exist only in rhymes. Poetry is everywhere. Wherever there is beauty and life, there is poetry. Turgenev.

18. Poetry is a fire burning in the human soul. This fire burns, heats and glows. Leo Tolstoy.