Definitions

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Vicente Aleixandre

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
Stevie Smith

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Sylvia Plath

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
John Cage