Poetry’s definition : 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley : There are a few more choice snippets from Shelley’s 1821 essay, A Defence of Poetry, that articulated the essence of poetry: “Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be ‘the expression of the imagination’: and poetry is connate with the origin of man.” “Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” 2. Robert Frost : “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” 3. Salvatore Quasimodo : “Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.” 4. Edgar Allan Poe : “I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.” 5. T.S.
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