Poetry Quote by Amiri Baraka

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

— Nikki Giovanni

“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If…

— Gwyneth Lewis

“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father, your ancestors…

— Paul Beatty

I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and…

— Alfred B. Douglas

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

— Khalil Gibran

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate…

— Richard Eberhart

“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what…

— Charles Simic

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich