My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men. — William Soutar Copy Share Image
Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry. — John Hollander Copy Share Image
“How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?” — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart." "And on your worst days?" she had… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Living is the opposite of poetry. Poetry is the recollection of living, or, more often than not, the lament of having not… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. — Rick Fox Copy Share Image
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.” - Robert Graves” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. — Jean Marais Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
