"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things." ― Matthew Arnold Topic(s): Poetry More From Matthew Arnold "Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair." "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next." "The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion." More In Poetry "Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."― Carl Sandburg "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."― Plutarch "A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."― Chaim Potok