Poetry Quote by Anonymous

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

— George Meredith

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

— Louis Untermeyer

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

— Anonymous

“Birth, coupling, death. The more she thinks about it, the more it seems that that is all there is: a wheel turning over and…

— Sarah Dunant

“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking”

— Carrie Lorig

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he is her…

— Lang Leav

“Just another attempt by Rebecca to connect an everyday occurrence to the literary world. - Adriana”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

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