Alongside Quote by Andrew Motion

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

— Caroline Kennedy

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

— Billy Collins

Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek…

— Octavio Paz

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

— Gilbert Highet

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most…

— Erica Jong