Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. [ William Shakespeare ]

The elegancy, facility and golden cadence of poesy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, and teach that truth is truest poesy. [ Cowley ]

Superstition is the poesy of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will evaporate. [ Denham ]

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. [ Goethe ]

Never did poesy appear so full of heaven to me as when I saw how it pierced through pride and fear to the lives of coarsest men. [ Lowell ]

Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. [ Karl Ottfried Muller ]

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. [ Dr. Watts ]

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. [ Lowell ]

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]