Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way to express yourself, you can give one word a thousand meanings — Kendyl Smith Copy Share Image
poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it.… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break. — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
The thing about the poetry is that, because of the way it started, it was always something on the side. There's nobody… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations.… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image