“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.” — Jeremy Young Copy Share Image
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any… — Alan Brewer Copy Share Image
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
