What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
'Modern Painters' (1888) vol. 3
![What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.](http://cdn.myquotes.org/images/john-ruskin/what-is-poetry-the-suggestion-by-the-imagination-of-noble-grounds-for-the-noble-emotions.jpg)
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.