Amateur Quote by A. A. Milne

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur,…

— Robert Gordis

Slogan-making is not poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as…

— John Dewey

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

— Deborah Jowitt

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

— Anne Stevenson

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

“Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write poems I…

— Bob Hicok

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

— Natasha Trethewey

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art…

— Mark McMorris

If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that…

— Robert Hass

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

— Juvenal

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

— Taron Egerton