1. Good Question!

2. “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings…” William Wordsworth

3. "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry.” By Emily Dickinson

4. "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.“ By Dylan Thomas

5. Robert Frost (1874-1963) "A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words." by Robert Frost Famous American Poet (1874-1963)

6. "A poem should not mean but be.” by Archibald MacLeish American Poet (1892-1982)

7. "Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.“ by Paul Engle

8. "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." by Charles Simic American Poet born in 1938

9. "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." by Percy Bysshe Shelley English Poet (1792-1822)

10. "Poetry is a kind of listening. Poetry was meant to go into the eye and the heart.“ By Robert Bly

11. Definition of Poetry 1.a. metrical writing: VERSE b: the productions of a poet: POEMS 2.Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm 3.Something likened to poetry especially in beauty of expression.

12. How would YOU define poetry?