Appreciated Quote by A. E. Housman

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

— David Whyte

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

— Edward Hirsch

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his…

— Epes Sargent

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

— John Dewey

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

— Marjorie Holmes

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top