Poetry Quote by Anonymous

“It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh”

— A.A. Milne

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

— Paul Engle

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

— Ernest Hemingway

“THE POETRY TEACHER The university gave me a new, elegant classroom to teach in. Only one thing, they said. You can’t bring your dog.…

— Mary Oliver

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

— Bruce Springsteen

“The word poetry comes from the Greek word poiesis which just means “a making”. So if you’ve made it, it’s poetry. Even if it’s…

— Benedict Smith

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra,…

— Anna Quindlen

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott

Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be…

— Dylan Thomas

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

— Lorine Niedecker

In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget…

— Kevin Young