English-Portuguese translations for poetry

• poesia
  Não é a poesia que organiza a política quotidiana, não é infelizmente a poesia, e hoje peço-lhes uma coisa: que sejam sérios. Poetry will not organise everyday politics, not poetry, and today I ask you one thing: to be serious.
  Também é preciso um pouco de imaginação e de poesia. We too need a little imagination and poetry.
  Porque não soubemos incutir poesia na política.Because we have not been able to instill poetry into politics.
• poeticidade

Definition of poetry

• Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm
• A poet's literary production

Examples

• That Swan Lake choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovskis divine score well beyond the literary inspiration

Related words

• antipoetry
• poetry slam
• poetry anthology
• anthology of poetry
• write poetry
• lyric poetry
• shape poetry
• concrete poetry
• epic poetry