“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater… — Lorna Goodison Copy Share Image
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry… Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's one of those questions that would just love to have a pat answer. You know, poetry's job is to make us… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Good poetry, like music or a sweet touch, can doctor us up, be an antidote for an hour or longer, help us… — Daniel Ladinsky Copy Share Image
