Poetry Quote by Adrienne Rich

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

“Poetry is always naked, you only dress it with words.”

— Himmilicious

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get all the…

— Charles Bukowski

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!”

— Avijeet Das

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd