Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful. — Larry Towell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
