Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

— Osbert Sitwell

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and…

— Sarah Kay

“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

— Don Marquis

Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth. Tell me…

— Azra T

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting…

— Amir Sulaiman

“Poetry is like a song without music,” I said loftily. “A song without music is like a body without a soul.”

— Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”

— William Everson

Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say…

— Orson Scott Card

When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as…

— Ana Castillo

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

— Colleen Hoover

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in…

— Tony Harrison

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

“Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.”

— Chelsey Minnis