Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph 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
Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
