Poetry is Quotes · Page 14

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

— Leonard Cohen

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I…

— Diane Wakoski

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

— Eliza Griswold

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for…

— Patti Smith

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

— Walter Savage Landor

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

— Aristotle

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep…

— Dorianne Laux

The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is…

— Nick Laird

There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might…

— Antonin Artaud

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

— Arnold Bennett

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

— Carl Sandburg

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may…

— John Drinkwater

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a…

— Khalil Gibran

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet…

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores…

— Erica Jong

I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and…

— Etel Adnan

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking…

— Dylan Thomas

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

— Eliza Griswold

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald