1. What is Poetry?

2. Poetry is... William Wordsworth “Poetry is the imaginative expression of strong feeling.” Dame Rose Macaulay “By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion of the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.”

3. Poetry is... Percy Bysshe Shelley “Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds.” Emily Dickinson “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry.”

4. Poetry is... Robert Frost “Poetry is the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.” Babette Deutsch “The art which uses words as both speech and song to reveal the realities that the senses record, the feelings salute, the mind perceives, and the imagination orders.”

5. ...but it’s also...

6. Even Zombies and Axe Murderers appreciate poetry!