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“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to…

— PG Wodehouse

She has something to say about what life is-which is all we ask of poetry.

— Anonymous

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

— Louis Untermeyer

“And it didn’t matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl, the stars…

— Stephanie Perkins

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived,…

— J.D. Salinger

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless…

— Pietro Aretino

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

— Nicholas Sparks

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

— David Nicholls

“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout”

— Sylvia Plath

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is…

— Campbell McGrath