May Quote by Alfred Austin

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

— John Drinkwater

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

— Wallace Stevens

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

— Christopher Logue