Poetry Quote by Audre Lorde

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit…

— Edward Hirsch

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

— Natalie Goldberg

“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range”

— Mpho Leteng

“I don’t bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have color But…

— Alberto Caeiro

“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

— Matthea Harvey

“I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions that are…

— Jen Besemer

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.”

— Wallace Stegner