1N-UNCOUNT (作为文学形式的)诗,诗歌,韵文 Poems, considered as a form of literature, are referred to as poetry . (作为文学形式的)诗,诗歌,韵文
...Russian poetry.
俄罗斯诗歌
Lawrence Durrell wrote a great deal of poetry.
劳伦斯·达雷尔创作了大量的诗歌。
Since when have you been interested in poetry?
你从什么时候开始对诗歌感兴趣的?
2N-UNCOUNT 诗的意境;诗一般美的事物 You can describe something very beautiful as poetry . 诗的意境;诗一般美的事物
His music is purer poetry than a poem in words.
他的音乐比真正的诗歌更具诗意。
Quotations
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsenseIsaac Barrow
Poetry is what gets lost in translationRobert Frost
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listenFleur Adcock
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillityWilliam WordsworthLyrical Ballads (preface)
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of lifeMatthew ArnoldEssays in Criticism
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometryGustave Flaubertletter
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throatRobert Frost
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declinesLord MacaulayEssays
Poetry (is) a speaking picture, with this end; to teach and delightSir Philip SidneyThe Defence of Poetry
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothesJoseph RouxMeditations of a Parish Priest
Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best orderSamuel Taylor ColeridgeTable Talk
Imaginary gardens with real toads in themMarianne MoorePoetry
Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than historyAristotlePoetics
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of itJeremy Bentham
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetryJohn DonneThe Triple Fool
Poetry's a mere drug, SirGeorge FarquharLove and a Battle
I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net downRobert Frost
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at allJohn Keatsletter
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echoDon Marquis
rhyme being... but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metreJohn MiltonParadise Lost (preface)
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most peopleAdrian MitchellPoems
All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is proseMolièreLe Bourgeois Gentilhomme
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pityWilfred OwenPoems (preface)
it is not poetry, but prose run madAlexander PopeAn Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot