As to the definition of poetry, there’re numerous different arguments. Which one is your favorite saying in the following sentences?
A.
William Wordsworth: Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
B.
Daniel Defoe : Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
C.
Dylan Thomas: 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.
D.
T.S. Eliot: Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.