The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and… — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Copy Share Image
“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
One of the most famous lines in contemporary Russian poetry is "Erica makes four copies and that's enough." That's the ethos we're… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little… — Aileen Fisher Copy Share Image
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself.… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
