Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser.… — Jeanette Winterson 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
Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. — Gaston Bachelard 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 search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a… — Dawn Lundy Martin 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
I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc.,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard 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
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
