Children Quote by Audre Lorde

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

— Cherrie Moraga

Poetry is an act of peace.

— Pablo Neruda

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

— Robert Hass

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

— Bharati Mukherjee

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

— Vijay Seshadri