My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper…

“Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode (melos) of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten and therefore…

— Bruce Chatwin

I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich,…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

— John Hollander

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

— Marie Corelli

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

— Joyce Carol Oates

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

— Robert Graves

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens…

— Robert Morgan

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch

“Love is poetry, poetry is love”

— Milan Kundera

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

“Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart." "And on your worst days?" she had asked that…

— Mary Doria Russell

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…

— Matthew Arnold