I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry…

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

— Robert Pinsky

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

— Rita Dove

“I get the romance. Show me the plan. Poetry's easy; it's the parent-teacher conferences that are hard.”

— The Good Wife

Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into…

— Gioconda Belli

“Real poetry is like a sail at the open sea.”

— Eva Sonenberg

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

— Anonymous

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.

— Jim Morrison

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

— Dorothea Lasky

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal…

— Robert Greene

“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing…

— Czesław Miłosz

“[...] real poetry must hurt, as if you'd forgotten you wrapped a razor blade in your handkerchief and you blow your nose, no book…

— Bohumil Hrabal

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

— Robert E. Howard