Poetry Best Quotes

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any…

— Alan Brewer

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

— Jim Harrison

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of…

— Rupert Brooke

“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.”

— Harold Bloom

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of…

— Rupert Brooke

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may…

— Robert Bly

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.…

— Erica Jong

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

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named…

— Tom Robbins