The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Poet has no power over the muse, It's the muse who powers the poet. Best of poetry is an act of selfless… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Love songs or poetry? Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music. And you can't dance to poetry.” — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
