It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's…

“She began to whisper something in my ear. It’s the strangest thing about poetry—you can tell it’s poetry, even if you don’t speak the…

— Neil Gaiman

Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll…

— John Ashbery

“I will tell you what is poetry... It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit...”

— Chelsey Minnis

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

— Robin Lim

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and…

— June Jordan

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

— Chloe Zhao

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper,…

— Sarah Kay

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

— Max Beerbohm

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

— Billy Collins

The thing about the poetry is that, because of the way it started, it was always something on the side. There's nobody more surprised…

— Tim Key

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

I think the strangest thing that exists, is how there are billion of people on the planet and yet, so many people can spend…

— C Joybell C

In California, you want to have the strangest thing, be doing the strangest thing. People admire that.

— Ken Hakuta