The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle,… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader,… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
