Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number… — Barbara Feldon Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame… — James Agee Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace Copy Share Image
Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
