“Poetry, perhaps the finest of fine arts, certainly the shynest and most elusive?, poetry which must have listeners, which cannot sing into a void.”

— Harriet Monroe

'A Poets life, Seventy Years in changing world' Macmillan, New York 1938
A Poet 's Life (1938)

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American poet and editor 1860–1936

Max Michelson (1880–1953) American poet

“poetry, which is the voice of the soul's aspirations, has for it, of all the arts, the most natural and immediate appeal.”

Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) American writer and poet

On poetry

“Art has a breadth which encompasses all the forms of creativeness, in drama, poetry, dance, fine arts, music, and literature. Art is not the picture you see before you. Pictures are the products of art.”

Harvey Dwight Dash (1924–2002) American art educator

[Pictures Called Products Of Art., The Record, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Dwight_Dash_(1924-2002)_in_The_Record_of_Hackensack,_New_Jersey_on_5_November_1959.png, November 5, 1959, Harvey Dwight Dash]
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“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

"The Divine Comedy" (1977)
Context: Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

“Of all the arts poetry is the most intimate and personal.”

Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) American writer and poet

On poetry

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
Context: Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.